Justice

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.

On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.

"If the times have changed, Abbey’s ideas about freedom have in some ways never been more relevant."

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.

The militant abolitionist's execution set a precedent for armed resistance against the federal government with implications for those who had condemned him.

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

For the people of Old Bhopal, an accident there had sent forty metric tons of methyl isocyanate into a runaway reaction that released a toxic gas.

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.

Imagining a future that separates women from their biological identity seems so “drastic” as to be unimaginable—in 1962 and today.

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.

Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech is widely known as one of the greatest abolitionist speeches ever.

Years before Stonewall, many clergy members were standing on the front lines for gay rights.

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

How a legal footnote in a Santa Clara County railroad case and the judges who built on it created modern models of corporate personhood.

Sixty years after the decision, it’s worth remembering it took Congress's Civil Rights Act to finally smash Jim Crow.

Nearly six million Americans are prohibited from voting in the United States today due to felony convictions.

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

His story of coming out was so shrouded in scandal, so drenched in professional embarrassment, that its broader significance may forever be overshadowed.

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.

The lady smoking caper of 1908.

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.