The United States is currently at the precipice of theocracy at the hands of a small and powerful minority of professed followers of Jesus—and it would have made him sick to his stomach.
Human Rights & Justice
Our mass shootings confuse and dismay international observers. A journalist and scholar explains why Europeans cannot understand our inability to control gun violence and how that makes them uncomfortable with America today.
Doomed Jewish doctors trapped in the infamous Warsaw Ghetto in WWII conducted detailed research on the effects of starvation on the human body, and their research survived despite being forbidden by the Nazis.
The new penalties are part of a larger effort by Republicans to criminalize people involved in the election process, using Trump's continually repeated lies of election fraud as a justification.
Since the 2020 election, 26 states have enacted, expanded or increased the severity of 120 election-related criminal penalties, according to an analysis by States Newsroom of state legislation and data from the Voting Rights Lab.
Shooters have targeted members of particular groups, including Black, Hispanic and gay people. A few may have been motivated by politics as well as bigotry.
Clawing back benefits in the event of untimely death is only one of the utterly outrageous provisions that are at the heart of Rubio's cynical proposal.
White nationalists in the United States, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters and other attempted a collective coup on Jan. 6, 2021. And they wanted it to go further.
How do we undo this? Republicans spent decades cheating their way to a right-wing Supreme Court majority that enacts an extremist agenda, rather than interpreting the law.
Republican leadership across this country is declaring open war on diversity, on education, on the legitimacy of our elections. Our checks and balances have been compromised—and Democrats are warring with one another.
Unelected judges shouldn’t have the power to take away rights most Americans support. The Constitution begins with “We the People...” because we are ultimately responsible for realizing its promise.
Originalism is the idea that we should interpret the Constitution with its original meaning. But what, exactly, is the Constitution’s “original meaning”?
Many cancer patients face difficult financial choices. About 4 in 10 with debt have taken money out of a retirement, college, or other long-term savings account. About 3 in 10 have moved in with family or friends or made another change in their living situation.
Instead of practicing justice, the Supreme Court has descended to the practice of prejudice—something we have all trusted that it would never do.
The story of Rosie Greenstein, The Redhead of Auschwitz shows the power of a single person's decision to survive no matter what.
I’m never uneasy about Muslims or undocumented people or migrant families passing me on the street. No, it’s pissed-off, entitled, gun-toting, professed Christian white bigots emboldened by our former President who terrify me.