Justice

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

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.

Anita Hill suggests some ways the Senate Judiciary Committee can do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.

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

The rights we save may be our own.

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

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

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

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

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons.

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