Money from the Koch network is finding its way into the hands of the loudest online promoters of free speech—or at least, free speech for conservative viewpoints.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
California Ramps Up College Education Behind Bars
Prisons have been called universities of crime. What if they became, instead, actual universities?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Voting Rights Aren’t a ‘Power Grab,’ They’re Critical to a Functioning Democracy
This isn’t about partisanship: It’s about systemic racism.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Texas Detention Players Ramp Up Trump’s For-Profit ‘Baby Jails’
A Texas court ruling on child-care providers offers the Trump administration a way around protections for underage migrants.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump and McConnell Take Gaslighting to New Level in Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight
The use of an anti-Semitic trope to condemn protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights signals a turning point in the authoritarian trajectory of our politics.
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Thursday’s Anti-Kavanaugh March
Sexual-assault survivors and protesters demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court against Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
Posted inLaw and Justice
#MeToo Too Far: Reflections on a Judge’s Recall in California
The instinct to punish judges for an unpopular or mistaken decision is alive and well and imperiling judicial independence.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The EU Leads the Way to Internet Privacy Over Profit
We should be rooting for the success of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The New Reformer DAs
As cities grow more progressive, a new breed of prosecutors are winning office and upending the era of lock-’em-up justice. They may hold the key to resisting Trump’s mania for mass incarceration.
Posted inEducation in America
Repealing Title IX Guidelines on Sexual Assault: A Dialogue
Alexandra Brodsky and Lara Bazelon debate the merits of the Obama administration’s guidelines on sexual assault on campus.