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Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.
Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.
The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.
The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.
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