The Law School Dean Who Quietly Worked to Overturn the Election
Lawyers who worked to keep Trump in power in 2020 have risked being disbarred. But not Mark Martin.
Justice
Israel’s War on Gaza
Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.
Missouri Kills Marcellus Williams Over Objections From Prosecutor and Victim’s Family
Attorney General Andrew Bailey scuttled a deal that would have spared Williams’s life, and the courts and governor failed to intervene to stop the execution.
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CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said
The source of the quote corrected Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, but they kept accusing the Palestinian House representative of antisemitism anyway.
In Alabama, Officers Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions
As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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You Should Stop Calling Immigrants “Migrants”
A subtle bipartisan shift in the language of immigration has opened the door to vilification and dehumanization.
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There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other
A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.
They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.
FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.
A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.
After the AG's meddling, a trial court judge rejected Williams's innocence claim — even though prosecutors mishandled the murder weapon.
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Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.