Inside Mississippi’s Only Class on Critical Race Theory
By Molly Minta Mississippi Today Brittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states. She went […]
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Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities
By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]
The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away
By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]
Cases of Missing Trans People are Rarely Solved. A Married Pair of Forensic Genealogists is Hoping to Change That
By Erica Lentl Xtra They found Markham Doe among the evergreens on the east side of 11th Concession, in Markham, Ontario, on July 16, 1980. It was a humid, rainy […]
After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules
By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]
All the White Churches
By Jennifer C. Martin Los Angeles Review of Books Anthea Butler has spent the bulk of her career studying the influence of white religion on Black people. Formerly a Pentecostal […]
How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police
By Matt O’Brien & Michael Liedtke Associated Press When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of […]
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. […]
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