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August 19, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
QAnon Is Using the Anti-Trafficking Movement’s Conspiracy Playbook
Both are swimming in the same false claims and exaggerated campaigns.
August 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage
The women who remain locked out of the right to vote are the fractured legacy of a fractured movement.
July 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
All Police Can Be Secret Police
Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.
July 14, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Window of Possibility on Self-Managed Abortion
Telehealth has grown increasingly common in the face of Covid-19. A federal judge has now extended that access to medication abortion.
July 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Law Was Never Meant for Ghislaine Maxwell
Sex trafficking prosecution has been framed as a universal pursuit people can unite around, but that’s a fantasy.
July 9, 2020
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Brings the Presidency Back From a Lawless Brink
Today's decisions may not provide the deus ex machina that brings down Trump, but they slam the brakes on runaway executive power.
July 8, 2020
Matt Ford
The Electoral College Is an American Humiliation
If the Supreme Court no longer believes the lie that’s sustained this hastily concocted relic from our nation’s founding, why should anyone?
June 29, 2020
Matt Ford
John Roberts Chooses Precedent Over Ideology in Latest Abortion Fight
The chief justice threads a judicial needle and hands the conservative legal movement another disappointing ruling.
June 25, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Justice Department’s Fake Fight Against Sex Trafficking
Newspapers love a good “Feds take down sex trafficking” story, even if there are no sex traffickers actually taken down.
June 24, 2020
Paige Corich-Kleim
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J.C. Pan
I Still Do Water Drops Because the Covid Crisis Hasn’t Ended the Border Crisis
Paige Corich-Kleim provides aid to migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. For her, the pandemic has changed nothing and everything.
June 23, 2020
Matt Ford
Bill Barr Forgot How to Be an Attorney General
The head of the Department of Justice is suddenly struggling to be an effective election-year consigliere for President Trump.
June 18, 2020
Matt Ford
Trump’s Ineptitude Keeps Dream Alive for DACA Recipients
The Supreme Court grants a reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants. Their fate will now be decided in the November election.
June 18, 2020
Arthur Longworth
How to Survive Supermax
Inside the hell of solitary confinement
June 16, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Glimpse of a Trans Future
A historic Supreme Court ruling arrives in the middle of an uprising for Black trans lives.
June 15, 2020
Matt Ford
Neil Gorsuch Just Upended the Conservative Legal Project
The conservative justice’s ruling in favor of gay, queer, and transgender workers shows the limits of the right’s Faustian bargain on judges.
June 9, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Rush to Redefine “Defund the Police”
An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.
June 5, 2020
J.C. Pan
After Defunding the Police, Nationalize Their Benefits
Police unions have secured some of the most robust benefit packages in the country. Why shouldn’t everyone have that?
June 5, 2020
Matt Ford
This Is a Good Moment to Hear Joe Biden’s Thoughts on Attorneys General
With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.
June 3, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
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Katie McDonough
Protest Medics on Being Targeted by the Police, in Their Own Words
“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”
June 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Police Were a Mistake
Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.
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