Justice

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

Not directly. But it's more complicated than you think.

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Women anthropologists, face assault in the field, exposing victim blaming, institutional failures, and ethical gaps in academia.

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.