Law

Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.

Hard-won legislation meant to limit or end solitary confinement has run up against the power of correctional systems to neutralize change.

Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself.

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

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

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

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

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.