Law and Justice

Learning from Movements

Organizing shows how race, disability, and the economy are intertwined.

  • Shirley Lin

The Link to Abolition

Movements of the past are more than simply analogues.

  • Liat Ben-Moshe

More than Modest Proposals

Shifts in language and attitudes are a necessary step.

  • Steven Kapp

Make Neurodiversity Boring

Real change requires public policy.

  • Ari Ne’eman

The Limits of Self-Advocacy

Relying on self-advocacy has led to marked economic and racial disparities.

  • Kristin Bumiller

Who Speaks for Autism?

The movement must reckon with its diversity.

  • Catherine Tan

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Toward Neurodivergent Power

Final response: Liberal efforts are vital but insufficient.

  • Robert Chapman

The Future of Neurodiversity

The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.

  • Robert Chapman
with responses from
  • Ari Ne’eman
  • Kristin Bumiller
  • Catherine Tan
  • Shirley Lin
  • Steven Kapp
  • Liat Ben-Moshe

Inside the Legal Fight for Trans Rights

Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

  • Jennifer L. Levi
  • Shannon Price Minter
  • Paisley Currah

The Future of Speech on Campus

Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.

  • Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Instruments of Dehuman­ization

How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.

  • Maryam Jamshidi

Beneath the Razor Wire

Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

  • Paul Hockenos

The Free Speech Exception

Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.

  • Radhika Sainath

Letter from Israel

In the aftermath of October 7.

  • Oded Na’aman

Radical Pride

The rebellious origins of LGBTQ liberation

Fantasies of Fatherhood

Paternity is more complex than the stories we tell about it.

Keeping the Faith

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

  • Elizabeth Sepper
  • James Nelson

When Courts Matter

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

  • Jacob S. Abolafia
  • Jonathan S. Gould

A Climate Strategy of Last Resort

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

  • David McDermott Hughes

Presidential Crimes

Trump’s indictment and arrest break with decades of executive impunity.

Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

  • Brishen Rogers

Yes, Tax the Rich—and Also the Merely Affluent

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

  • Alex Raskolnikov

Women of the World, Unite!

A reading list for International Women’s Day

The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

  • Christopher Newfield
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