The FBI is demanding that Apple help it access the iPhone of San Bernardino attacker Syed Rizwan Farook. Why are privacy and civil rights advocates so alarmed by this case?

A man who called the Voting Rights Act a "perpetuation of racial entitlement," complained of the law profession’s "anti-anti-homosexual culture" and argued that mere "actual" innocence is no reason for the state not to kill someone was eulogized as gra...

A man who called the Voting Rights Act a "perpetuation of racial entitlement," complained of the law profession’s "anti-anti-homosexual culture" and argued that mere "actual" innocence is no reason for the state not to kill someone was eulogized as gra...

A labor disruption at the Boston Globe by the paper's deliverers broached the dividing wall between reporters and the people whose difficult and undercompensated labor brings those reporters' work to much of the public.

A labor disruption at the Boston Globe by the paper's deliverers broached the dividing wall between reporters and the people whose difficult and undercompensated labor brings those reporters' work to much of the public.

The government has a responsibility to address the disproportionate infliction of environmental harms on communities of color, from the spraying of toxic pesticides to the siting of polluting factories. But do they do it, and if not, why not?

The government has a responsibility to address the disproportionate infliction of environmental harms on communities of color, from the spraying of toxic pesticides to the siting of polluting factories. But do they do it, and if not, why not?

We should care what media are saying about single payer—as a lesson in policing possibilities, even apart from what it means for the presidential race.

Some children in the largely poor, largely black community have seen lead levels in their blood triple since the decision to take city tap water from the Flint River, but how that decision came to be made is fodder for more than the brief moment of sun...

If the reason the arrest of Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo" Guzman is so significant is its impact on the war on drugs—what, really, is that impact?