For the Taliban, blocking female education in Afghanistan is both leverage in international relations and the result of medieval, misogynist beliefs.
Inequality
Supreme Court hears key liberties cases
The ultra-right supermajority justices have precedents on abortion, voting and LGBTQ+ rights in their sights.
The continuing shame of Guantánamo
Guest column exposé by National Lawyers Guild leader Jim Lafferty.
Mississippi justice?
Two white supremacists chased and shot up the truck of a Black FedEx driver. They were belatedly arrested and released on bail. Racism on steroids.
Defend Assange’s truth-telling
For exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq, whistle-blower Julian Assange faces trial for espionage and 175 years in prison.
How employment numbers lie
Gross under-counting, inequality, and underpay is the truth behind the grossly deflated unemployment statistics.
The murder of Eric Garner: Justice denied
It took seven years for a judicial inquiry to probe the murder of Eric Garner. In the end, no accountability. What will it take to get justice?
Judicial impartiality? What a joke.
The Rittenhouse murder trial was a travesty. As are too many trials. What will it take to get accountability?
Let’s mess with Texas
“States’ rights” are just a cover for bigots everywhere.
What is behind the racist attacks on voting rights?
Facts and figures on how big money funds assaults on the voting rights of a multi-racial populace, which has HAD it with billionaire power.