Justice

We tell the story of the Jane Collective, which provided thousands of illegal abortions fin Chicago rom 1969 to 1973, before Roe v. Wade.

Why a radical group of environmentalists turned to direct action in defense of wild nature.

A response to Samuel Moyn’s “Resisting the Juristocracy.”

A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.

From today's vantage, the remarkable achievements of the writer and social justice activist are finally coming into focus.

What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?

At the turn of the century, Chicago police killed 307 people, one in eighteen homicides in the city—three times the body count of local gangsters.

The way to address politicization in the courts is not de-politicization but counter-politicization.

Proponents believe lethal injection to be a medical marvel, but in reality it’s junk science.

Today, despite their mixed record, private prison companies are overseeing the vast majority of undocumented migrants.

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

When it comes to partisan Supreme Court nominations, history repeats itself.

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.

This grassroots movement brought occupational health to American labor, paving the way for the creation of OSHA.

Using the court system to stymie a president has backfired before.

In 1928, women wanted more than just the vote. They wanted to do everything a man could do. Even fly the Atlantic.

In early America, one's looks, rather than date of birth, often determined one's age.

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.

An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.

A bold protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers lessons for today’s resistance.

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

The elusive meaning of privacy in America.

The lessons from a critical California election in which voters rejected a virulently homophobic ballot measure.

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.

The soul singer was an architect of the civil-rights movement as much as a witness to it.

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.