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According to a new report, the pepper spraying of peacefully protesting UC Davis students last year “should and could have been prevented.”

Law enforcement appears to be regularly sending subpoenas to social media companies. This time, the target found out about it.

In just two years, half the country’s states have passed extreme fetal-rights amendments.

There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, who usually get off with a fine and a promise not to do it again, and again and again.

Besides sleeping in a park, what should those of us sympathetic to Occupy Wall Street be doing to advance the well-being of the 99 percent?

Topeka, Kansas, decriminalized domestic violence to save money. It’s not the only city to cut services to survivors of abuse, just as the need escalates.

The longtime criminal justice reformer believes the city can improve public safety through smarter spending on social services.

Yes, rape cases are notoriously difficult to prove. But in the DSK case, the criminal justice system worked.

Habeas corpus rescued Walter Rideau from an unjust prison sentence, but during its long history the great writ has been used to muffle the sighs of prisoners as much as to relieve them.

Devastation wrought by the BP spill is in headlines daily. But decades of oil drilling in Louisiana have done far more indelible damage.