Human Rights & Justice

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.

The twisted and convoluted appeal filed by Trump's attorneys to the Supreme Court, seeking to overturn his ban from the Colorado ballot has now been answered by the voters bringing the original case.

Despite repeated promises, Trump never presented his own Obamacare replacement. Trying to predict Trump’s priorities for a second term is even more difficult given that he frequently changes his positions.

In a fiery campaign speech, Biden invoked what he called Donald Trump’s derelictions of duty and threats to freedom.

The law—part of a national wave of GOP-led book bans and other policies targeting LGBTQ+ youth—was passed by the Iowa Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds this spring.

Republican-dominated Iowa's law against certain books is being applied way to broadly and is being challenged and heard in federal court.

What started as the lowest moment of the post-election melee became the most inspiring. The voters won.

Protest is elemental to Argentine social and political life, so it's not difficult to imagine how this ends.