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Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

In the name of fighting drugs, the Obama administration has allied itself with a corrupt coup regime.

The swelling ranks of precarious workers—freelancers, independent contractors, interns—can learn much from domestic workers' efforts to gain legal rights.

How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks.

From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.

Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?

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?

Has the ICC struck a blow against impunity or heightened tensions—or both?

The former Liberian dictator abetted the atrocities of a proxy army. Henry Kissinger did the same in Indonesia/East Timor.

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.