Justice

Almost 1,300 people say the state of New Hampshire failed to act to protect them from child abuse at youth facilities. Here’s what the allegations reveal.

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

Looking back on the environmentalist and anti-globalization movements of the 1990s.

The law is routinely blamed for a very real problem it had nothing to do with.

Trump's seeming mixup of asylum-seeking refugees with patients in psychiatric institutions stems from a long rhetorical and political tradition.

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today.

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority has been quietly rolling back a longstanding consensus over cruel and unusual punishment.

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state.

America is suffering from a severe housing shortage. A crucial tool may lie in the Constitution.

The story of American abolitionists who, after Emancipation, pivoted from antislavery campaigns to animal welfare advocacy.

In throwing up new roadblocks to the use of private money to redress racial and economic inequality, the Fearless Fund ruling is antihistorical.

Following the careers of a family of especially corrupt border control officials.

Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.

“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.

Promoted as a social and economic savior, the US federal interstate highway system acted as a tool to promote racial injustices.

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.

How history shaped the modern U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Successes that came when presidents protected student protesters from outside meddling are worth remembering when students return to campus.

Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.

On Ana Raquel Minian’s “In the Shadow of Liberty.”

In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

Border Patrol has abused its authority and mistreated migrants in countless ways. Yet its role as the frontline force in asylum exclusion has only grown.

The case of Robinson and Roberts v. Wheble provides legal historians with the most thorough documentation of an eighteenth-century trademark dispute.

On the TransAm Trucking case, legal reasoning, and the Fugitive Slave Act.

A new study of the national security apparatus finds the existing Bureau incompatible with republican government.

Abolitionist and writer John Swanson Jacobs on reclaiming liberty in a land of unfreedom.

Chinese immigration and the Immigration Act of 1924.

The City University of New York has long stood at once for meritocratic uplift and for civil disobedience.