Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.

Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.

Attorney General Bill Barr’s transparent corruption has reached farcical new levels. And he’s not done by a damn sight.

Whoever gets tapped as the next Democratic attorney general could potentially define a presidency and reset a wayward Justice Department.

This is how the no-longer-independent Justice Department can be deployed against the president’s 2020 opponent.

The president's crony attorney general is bent on whitewashing the administration's misdeeds, forever scarring the department's integrity.

If all our political disputes are destined to be settled by unelected judges, do the people even have a place in our democracy?

In the struggle for criminal justice reform, police are playing the victim.

Dragging their feet on VAWA, the GOP proved again that protecting women and honoring tribal sovereignty aren't priorities in modern conservative politics.

One thing we're learning during impeachment hearings is that the president and his cronies are deeply invested in an uncheckable executive branch.

The attorney general believes the Christian hegemony is essential to American democracy, and wants to leverage state power to uphold it.

It takes a special kind of attorney general to make Jeff Sessions seem scrupulous.

Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-prosecutor Rudy Giuliani share the same job: defending the president.

Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the government will put five prisoners to death in six months, ending a 16-year hiatus.

Michael Wolff’s latest exposé says Mueller thought indicting Trump was possible and proper—but the special counsel himself isn’t talking.

With the Russia investigation over, and an obsequious attorney general in his corner, the president may be truly unleashed.

After Attorney General Bill Barr’s misleading portrayal of the Russia investigation, it's critical that the special counsel testify to Congress.

The underlings who resisted his abuses of power have since left the administration.

A lesson from Watergate: Never underestimate the power of political gravity.

The release of the Mueller report is a moment of truth not only for the attorney general, but his loyal deputy, too.