Human Rights & Justice

Ignoring the danger of fascism to America or writing it off as a "scare tactic" is just naïveté—or whistling past the graveyard.

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state. This is one of their stories.

Homelessness in the U.S. is a function of poverty, not criminality, and criminalizing people experiencing homelessness in no way helps solve the problem—it just makes it worse.

The legacy of slavery is still enshrined in thousands of judicial opinions and briefs that are cited today by American judges and lawyers in cases involving everything from property rights to criminal law.

Historically, Black veterans are some of the least recognized soldiers in American military history. African Americans have fought alongside white soldiers dating back to the American Revolution.

200 years ago, welfare reformers could have turned an eye on the systemic drivers of poverty. Instead, they focused on supposed scammers who didn’t really exist.

Florida saw more books challenged for removal than any other state last year, according to data released by the American Library Association.

Too many children die as the result of abuse and neglect. The hard truth is that no one is working hard to count how many of them, or what’s behind outcomes that may be largely preventable.

Even before Dobbs overturned Roe V Wade, many rural women had to travel more than 180 miles to get an abortion. And as of December 2023, over a dozen states have now lack any abortion clinic.

A new survey finds that a significant majority of religious Americans think abortion should be legal in most or all cases.

Trump claims he can replicate Operation Wetback on a much grander scale by setting up immigration detention centers to remove the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S.

The court is considering whether criminal penalties for sleeping in public places amount to cruel and unusual punishment. But no ruling on the issues before the high court will change the nature or scope of the problem.

The draconian decision of Arizona's Supreme Court, to enforce an abortion ban from 1864, has served to galvanize Democrats and split Republicans—with some criticizing it and others cheering it on.

The uber-Right keeps wishing chicks would just pipe down and accept their place in the Christian Nationalist order as good mothers, good wives and serving wenches at the masculinist feast.

For Texas women to exercise their inherent right to control their own bodies, they’re forced to travel to nearby states. But the state’s brutal extremists bark that “we’ll ban that, too!”

If a Republican is elected to the White House, you can expect all caution to go out the window: every woman of reproductive age in America will have a target on her back—or her uterus.