The EPA’s Bungled Response to an Air Pollution Crisis Exposes a Toxic Racial Divide
How government responds to cancer-causing air pollution depends a lot on where you live and the color of your skin.
Justice
Playing With Fire
Fire Scientists Say the Arson Case Against Claude Garrett Was Fatally Flawed. Will Anyone Listen?
Garrett was denied parole in 2018 against the recommendation of Tennessee’s parole commissioner. Will Nashville’s Conviction Review Unit take up his case?
The War on Immigrants
Honduran Teen Fled Gangs at Home Only to Be Murdered While Stranded at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The murder of Jorge Ruiz and another teen casts into stark relief the dangers faced by unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border.
French Muslims Grapple With a Republic That Codified Their Marginalization
“These kids you see around, Africans and Arabs, whether people like it or not, they’re French.”
The War on Immigrants
The Justice Department Singled Out This Man in Expanding Efforts to Strip Citizenship. A Judge Doesn't Think the Case Is Open and Shut.
“This administration is overusing the very extreme measure of denaturalization against Muslim and other minority communities.”
Voices
The Department of Justice Loves Publicizing Arrests of Alleged Terrorists — but Not the White Nationalist Coast Guard Officer
Why didn't Donald Trump’s Justice Department say anything when it arrested this alleged terrorist?
Voices
Beyond the Rising Tide: Reparations for Slavery Have to Be More Than a Symbol
The problem isn’t that universal programs can’t close the racial wealth gap. It’s that the programs backed by the Democratic Party don’t go far enough.
How the Federal Government Undermines Prison Education
Access to education behind bars lowers the odds of recidivism by 48 percent. So why is there still a ban on Pell Grants for prisoners?
The End of Roe
What Brett Kavanaugh’s Dishonest Anti-Abortion Dissent Reveals About His Supreme Court Agenda
Kavanaugh's first Supreme Court dissent is a mess of omissions and misrepresentations.
Locked Inside a Freezing Federal Jail, They United to Protest Their Conditions — Only to Face Reprisals
In some units where incarcerated people protested, the toilets were shut off — leaving them sleeping next to their own feces.