What happens when the government uses threats of decades in jail to turn a person into a handy informer who testifies against his former allies?Â
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Stemming the Tide of Recidivism: Banning ‘the Box’
President Obama could send a strong signal to employers by barring executive-branch agencies from asking about criminal records on job applications.
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Supreme Court: Tear Down This Wall!
Yesterday’s ruling in Greece v. Galloway is an affront to religious equality, but it also reflects the poisoned fruit of a bad precedent.
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How Big Data Could Undo Our Civil-Rights Laws
From “reverse redlining” to selling out a pregnant teenager to her parents, the advance of technology could render obsolete our landmark civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws.
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Race-Blind Admissions Are Affirmative Action for Whites
In 1994, University of Michigan rejected Jennifer Gratz, setting in motion the overturning of state’s affirmative-action policy. Now, she’s challenging a black student who’s protesting her own rejection.
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We Have Known Black Boys (But None Have Been Bullet-Proof)
After today’s verdict in Jordan Davis’s murder trial, a writer reacts in verse.
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Can States Protect Access to Reproductive Health Clinics?
The fate of Massachusetts’s buffer-zone law doesn’t look promising after yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments.Â
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The People’s Court?
If you want to see where the problems of unaffordable housing and low wages and poor education play out every day, go to Detroit’s 36th District Court.Â
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A Very Bad No-Good Week in the Circut Courts
Last week’s decision reinstating Texas’s draconian abortion restrictions was an excellent illustration of why Republicans are so determined to keep President Barack Obama from making appointments to the federal courts. Unfortunately, that case was only the first of a spate of scary decisions announced by conservative circuit court judges in the last seven days. One […]
