Voices
Four Months Ago, Biden Said Haiti Wasn’t Safe. Now He’s Deporting Thousands There.
The Biden administration is using a Trump-era policy to justify mass deportations — only Biden is doing it at a faster pace.
Justice
Lawmakers Take On Militarization of Police in Defense Budget Talks
Biden failed to take action on the Pentagon’s 1033 program. Now four lawmakers have proposed NDAA amendments that would limit or end it.
At Rikers Island, Inmates Locked in Showers Without Food and Defecating in Bags
Two years of fearmongering over criminal justice reform led to a humanitarian crisis at the notorious New York City jails.
The 9/11 Wars
An FBI Informant's Unlikely Role in Upcoming Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims
Craig Monteilh's affidavit is central to one of the most significant legal challenges to the FBI’s post-9/11 surveillance of Muslims.
The 9/11 Wars
How Post-9/11 Visions of an Imperiled Homeland Supercharged U.S. Immigration Enforcement
Two decades on, the creation of DHS stands out as the most significant domestic consequence of the war on terror.
FBI Pressured U.S. Resident to Sign Away His Green Card, Forcing Him Into Exile
Akram Djumaev's 2016 encounter with federal agents at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan is the subject of a new lawsuit.
Protests for Black Lives
Legal Observers Sue the NYPD Over Assault and Detention at Bronx Protest
Police violated the constitutional rights of National Lawyers Guild observers during racial justice protests in Mott Haven, a new lawsuit alleges.
How Sirhan Sirhan Was Mentored Through Parole by Suge Knight, Mafia Leaders
“I’m a global villain myself, people think I killed Tupac, and that was Tupac. You killed a Kennedy,” Suge Knight told Sirhan.
Voices
My Husband Died on 9/11. I Am Still Waiting for a Trial of His Killers.
We haven't brought any 9/11 conspirators to justice, despite torture and decades of war.
Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period
Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams.