Our mothers and fathers tell us how to behave when—not if—we are stopped by police. But sometimes it’s no use.
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Affirmative Action, Race or Class: An Exchange
Should universities shift their recruitment focus away from race and onto poor neighborhoods?
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Hobby Lobby Decision Could Give License to Anti-Labor ‘Biblical Economics’ Practices
Religious Right leaders have been working hard to convince conservative evangelicals that the Tea Party’s anti-government, anti-union, anti-welfare agenda is grounded in the Bible, setting the stage for more “religious liberty” legal arguments by corporation owners.
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Argentina’s Loss to Germany Nothing Compared to Financial Rout By U.S.
As Merkel starves ailing European economies, SCOTUS is doing worse to Argentina’s.
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Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
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Without Economic and Educational Justice, There Is No Racial Justice
A half-century after Freedom Summer, African Americans continue to face severe barriers not just to voting, but also to economic security.
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Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More
The decision in Harris v. Quinn—written by the Court’s leading union-hater, Justice Samuel Alito—appears designed to cripple unions by creating incentives for “free riders.”
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Why The Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision Is Wrong
Today, a bare majority of the Court held that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, employers do not have to adhere to federal regulations requiring that health insurance offered to employees cover contraceptives if the requirement conflicts with their religious beliefs. The majority opinion supporting this view, written by Justice Alito and joined by the […]
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How a Bad Interpretation of a 1976 SCOTUS Case Set the Stage for Citizens United
The Buckley v. Valeo decision was more complicated and subtle than the “money equals speech” slogan for which it’s misremembered.
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The Great American Chain Gang
Why can’t we embrace the idea that prisoners have labor rights?
