Justice

What Dred Scott teaches us about thwarting bad law.

The Court got it right—but it's not a conclusion we should be entirely comfortable with.

Had British authorities and their soldiers exercised de-escalation tactics, would the United States exist today?

The struggle at universities was never a simple conflict of generations.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

Why an FDR plan from the 1930s is suddenly popular again.

It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

America has always discriminated in the name of national security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not.

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

The New Orleans Fire Department was accused of not responding immediately and refusing to touch the bodies of victims.

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

Not every concentration camp is Auschwitz. The term is much older.

I was sent to a camp at just 5 years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families.

The ERA has been dead for 36 years, but now women may have the tools to overcome opposition.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

She is remembered for being a "first," but it was her integrity, courageousness, and conviction that made her an icon.

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.

Mental health care has never been adequate in the U.S.

On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.

Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.

African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.

Angry that ICE is ripping families apart? Don’t just blame Trump. Blame Clinton, Bush and Obama, too.

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.

How the entertainer was blacklisted for standing up to the President.

Why the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision was a major loss for gay rights.