Justice

The cause of animal rights is about far more than just the treatment of animals. It is central to our most pressing global challenges and debates.

In an era of rampant environmental protests, Shield616 has routed extractive industry donations to local police forces.

In the official narrative of capital punishment, there are victims and there are victimizers. The reality is far more complicated.

If Trump’s Justice Department ups the ante to charge Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, he may spend the rest of his life in prison.

While Donald Trump seeks border wall funding, the U.S. has already helped Mexico build an invisible wall, sending asylum-seekers to their deaths.

The Trump DOJ is exploiting animosity toward Assange to launch a thinly disguised effort to criminalize core functions of investigative journalism.

ICE is planning to deport some Somali immigrants who said they experienced abuse on board a December 2017 deportation flight that was returned to the U.S.

Unfounded speculations that black protesters might be linked to terrorists exposed activists to the risk of additional police violence.

Monday’s Supreme Court death penalty decision sparked outrage. But the court has long given constitutional cover to the most grotesque executions.

Campaigns to decriminalize sex work are gaining ground, but states like Florida are instead cracking down.