Courts & Law

How Texas Jails Paved the Way for Migrant Incarceration

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for its weekly newsletter, or follow it on Facebook and X. In 1926, the Galveston League of...

‘War on Cartels’ and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed and could soon have the authority to make that...

“War on Cartels” and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed, and could soon have the authority to make that...

The Truth Behind Musk v. Brazil

In early October, Brazil lifted its ban on X following a prolonged battle between its government and the...

‘Fund the Police’ Backfired — and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever

In the past four years, mainstream Democrats have: nominated a former prosecutor for president; elected an ex-NYPD officer...

Antarctica’s Fate at the Forefront of the Rights of Nature Movement

With the Earth at its most degraded point in recorded history, and humans making insufficient efforts to prevent the destruction of ecosystems, a growing number of...

One MAGA Leader Aims To Put Civil Servants “In Trauma” if Trump Wins

This story was originally published by ProPublica and co-published by Documented. A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military...

Donald Trump and the Election Subversion Plot of 1787

Donald Trump owes the Founding Fathers a deep debt of gratitude for making his past and present election-subversion plots possible. In particular, he should...

How Georgia Convicts Innocent Women

This story is co-published with Capital B Atlanta, which is part of Capital B, a Black-led, nonprofit local and national news organization reporting for Black communities...

The Effort To Silence Climate Protesters

In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters...

The Other Sherman’s March

The U.S. Justice Department recently hauled Google into court for violating an 1890 federal law designed to forestall the unjust consolidation of economic power....