Justice

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.

The context and aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.

Routine arrests were the linchpin of a social system intended to humiliate LGBTQ people.

The right to public defense wasn’t granted by elites. It was won by socialist-led mass movements.

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.

The weddings made possible by local government and broad legal language.

According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

It was an important turning point, but by no means were the riots the first act of Queer resistance.

They really do not have anything to do with each other.

As a Native person, I believe “This Land Is Your Land” falls flat.

In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia because of of racial disparities.

By targeting sex workers, she enacted policies that harmed the most vulnerable women.

Giving Stonewall too much credit misses the movement’s growing strength in the 1960s, sociologists note.

In the early twentieth century, immigrant tenant organizers made rent control laws a reality. Today, working-class New Yorkers still fight for housing justice.

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

Waverly Woodson treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day, despite being injured, himself.

Most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.

The Duke Center for Firearms Law's efforts to catalog the history of gun laws.

Revealing these materials could be considered “Hoover’s revenge.”

The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.

The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.

The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.