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Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could a Supreme Court ruling on juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?

How racism, global economics, and the New Jim Crow fuel black America’s crippling jobs crisis.

Over the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become a strong grassroots force. Now it's time to develop a unified legislative strategy that can shape the national debate.

The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.

DNA research increasingly allows us to collapse time and discover criminal guilt or innocence. That's why the Supreme Court's recent ruling against a prisoner's right to post-conviction DNA testing is so baffling.

Sarah Arnold on the Rockefeller drug laws; Ari Melber on Obama's citizen Q&A; Manning Marable on the life of Dr. John Hope Franklin; John Nichols on Arlen Specter's stab in the back.

He should stiffen his meager bailout plan and call for a moratorium on foreclosures and serious government intervention.

Local food projects and community gardens are springing up in urban areas all over the country, cutting a promising new path to empowering the poor.

An effective progressive movement must start in cities.