Voices
Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history.
Justice
The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting
Questions remain about the police response to the shooting of former President Donald Trump — questions that 911 logs may help answer.
Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.
Cop Who Shot Sonya Massey Lied to Make a Drug Arrest. It Didn’t Hurt His Career.
Sean Grayson had a history of credibility issues. It didn’t stop him from being hired at police departments in Central Illinois.
His Best Chance to Get Off Death Row Was DNA on the Murder Weapon, but Prosecutors “Contaminated” the Evidence
The prosecutor’s actions two decades ago doomed Marcellus Williams’s shot at exoneration. Now the AG won’t let his life be spared.
Voices
College Administrators Spent Summer Break Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests
New York University students who speak out against Zionism will now risk violating the school’s nondiscrimination policies.
Out for Blood
Democrats Abandoned Their Anti-Death Penalty Stance. Those on Federal Death Row May Pay the Price.
Witnesses to Trump's execution spree are dismayed by Democrats' decision to remove death penalty opposition from their party platform.
A Prosecutor Admits His Office’s Incompetence Cut Off an Innocent Man’s Path to Exoneration
A Missouri prosecutor was set to argue that Marcellus Williams had been wrongly convicted. New evidence that prosecutors had mishandled the murder weapon got in the way.
The NYPD Is Illegally Leaking Sealed Records About Children to Tabloids
The juvenile arrest records are sealed by law — but police regularly disclose them to prosecutors and even right-wing media.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Days Before Convention, Activists Sue Police Over Violence at DNC Headquarters Protest
D.C. police assaulted Gaza war protesters and strangled them with their own keffiyehs, a lawsuit alleges.