Human Rights & Justice

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has said she will sign legislation which will permit children as young as 14 to work in more dangerous trades including roofing, construction, and demolition.

Stand your ground laws authorize defensive violence without a duty to retreat. Some also expand the circumstances in which someone could use lethal force to defend property.

Things didn’t look good for Fox, and that was before the parade of high-profile witnesses, including Rupert Murdoch, Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity were expected submit to cross-examination.

One of the expert witnesses in the Monsanto trials is a medical doctor who has written a book to raise awareness of the connections between the cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Monsanto's Roundup chemicals.

The book bans, censorship, and attacks on LGBTQ kids that the GOP calls “parents rights” are way out of step with American families and what they really care about.

The Catholic Church's "Doctrine of Discovery" was used to justify the world’s largest land grabs and the resulting colonialism and oppression of indigenous peoples.

Two Black members of the Tennessee House of Representatives were expelled by the Republican majority for joining protests against gun violence and the recent murders of three 9-year-old children.

Trump may be the first former president to face criminal prosecution, but that fact in and of itself is a damning condemnation of the U.S. system of impunity.

Trump's corruption is finally catching up to him. He was the first president to be impeached twice, and now he’s the first former president to be criminally indicted.

Unsurprisingly, book bans are increasingly orchestrated by fundamentalist groups like Moms for Liberty with a white Christian Nationalist spin.

Each attempt to ban a book by conservative groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore.

For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions—but Dreamers like Alliyah Lusuegro have seen that there’s another way.

The Montana state health department denied a public records request for all investigations into Montana State Hospital patient deaths, injuries, and assaults since losing federal certification.

Erin Brockovich's Friday night Town Hall filled the auditorium to capacity as well as two overflow rooms at East Palestine High School.

Putin miscalculated. He thought he was confronting a corrupt regime, like his own. He expected the leaders to run. Instead, they stood their ground.

Republicans are on a tear to regulate what people can see, read or hear. But stop a Republican from telling a lie or inciting violence—or an insurrection—and a scream about free speech rights will follow.