Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women
By Jeannie Suk Gersen The New Yorker In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to […]
Category Archives: LAW
Ground Zero for a Billion-Dollar Surge of Zombie Oil Wells
By Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins & Naveena Sadasivam Grist When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with […]
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court
By Adam Liptak The New York Times “For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom,” Justice Samuel Alito told the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, in November. […]
Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t
By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]
Unequal Before the Law
By Matthew Clair The Nation This spring, graphic images of a white police officer digging his knee into George Floyd’s neck served as a catalyst to renew the mass social […]
How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism
By Elizabeth Dias & Ruth Graham The New York Times Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to […]
What is the Internet Doing to Boomers’ Brains?
By Michael Hobbes Huffpost The last time they spoke, John’s father accused him of being part of the deep state. They have never exactly gelled politically — John, 38, is […]
Recycling Meets Reality
By M. Mitchell Waldrop Knowable Magazine If your neighborhood is like most locales in the United States, there’s a thing that’s hard to unsee once you notice: The trucks that […]
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
By Wilfred Codrington III The Atlantic Is a color-blind political system possible under our Constitution? If it is, the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 did […]
Blue Lives Matter and the Permanence of Racism
By India Thusi Cornell Law Review Online It was fifteen years after the second millennium, and civil unrest rocked our nation’s cities following the police shootings of several unarmed Black […]
