There are many measures the president could take to restore civil liberties—if he wanted to.

The Justice Department has been ruthless in targeting those who bring hidden information into the public realm. 

Will Obama's order to increase "school resource officers" funnel more of our students through the school-to-prison pipeline?

Let's face the truth: anyone with a gun can be a "bad guy." What we need is fewer guns, period.

The Roberts Court has shifted away from the very collective values and ideas that will be necessary to enact—and uphold—crucial policies on guns and mental health.

After taking some hits, the movement for abortion rights is pushing back—and has some new tricks up its sleeve.

The Pentagon is intent on pursuing its own global version of the Second Amendment.

It's the wrong response to incidents like Newtown.

Rick Perlstein joins Bryce Covert and George Zornick to explore the serpentine shifts and strange bedfellows of gun control politics. 

A decade after Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied death row and pardoned four innocent men who were tortured by police under Commander Jon Burge, the city of Chicago has not admitted to its collective crimes.