The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.

We must end the widespread practice of funding government budgets by extorting poor people apprehended for minor offenses.

Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them.

New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, but at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.

Many U.S. criminal statutes betray the bedrock legal principle of mens rea. The result is a deeply unjust system that punishes the morally innocent.

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.

In many states, legal regimes sanction the predictable murder of innocent black men. Justice will not be served until the law changes.

Counterterrorism largely ensnares people of color.

A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.

States should release from prison far more than the very small percentage of low-level, nonviolent offenders they hold.

Conservatives have long been sounding the alarm about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance.

One man’s struggle to earn a degree while incarcerated shows how far tough-on-crime policies go to prevent prisoners from having a second chance.