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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?

A DOJ probe into the mental health program at a medium security prison could put solitary confinement on trial.

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

How Pakistan makes Washington pay for the Afghan war.

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

How US counterterrorism operations ignited an Islamist uprising.

Zoe Strauss has turned the streets of Philadelphia into a museum for her photography.

What if the role of the new US special operations team at work near Iran were reversed?

Zuccotti Park was not my first occupation. But it showed me the need to live up to our values.