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The 1 Percent Court
The 1 Percent Court (The Constitution, The Courts)

A Court for the money power, and our democracy is at stake.

Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger
How the Right Packed the Court (Supreme Court, Conservatives and the American Right)

The long-term campaign to roll back the New Deal.

William Yeomans
'Citizens United' and the Corporate Court
'Citizens United' and the Corporate Court (Supreme Court, Citizens United, The Constitution, The Courts)

Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.

Jamie Raskin
One Nation by and for the Corporations
One Nation by and for the Corporations (Supreme Court)

Courts that shelter the powerful and evict the little guy.

Dahlia Lithwick
The Roberts Court and Wall Street (Supreme Court, Corporate Lobbying)

The Court’s next project: saving Wall Street from Dodd-Frank.

Michael Greenberger
Isolating America's Workers
Isolating America's Workers (Supreme Court, Labor)

The pendulum swings hard against the rights of labor.

Craig Becker and Judith Scott
Rewriting Antitrust Law (Supreme Court, Law, Mergers and Antitrust)

Helping the big get bigger, the strong get stronger.

Herman Schwartz
A Court Out of Touch (Supreme Court)

Today’s justices do not hear the real America.

Sherrilyn Ifill
The Way Forward
The Way Forward (Supreme Court, The Constitution, The Courts)

Fight for a Court that speaks of and for the rest of us.

Nan Aron
Undocumented Immigrants Take On the DNC (Activism, Election 2012, Immigration to the US)

The Undocubus activists are calling for the immigration reform that President Obama promised when he first ran for office.

Francis Reynolds

Blogs

How Long Will Arizona Deny Driver's Licenses to Immigrant Youth?
Aura Bogado

A high court’s preliminary ruling indicates there is not rational basis for Governor Jan Brewer’s attempt to deny driver’s licenses for certain immigrants.

May 17, 2013
Pussy Riot Doc Defends Free Speech But Skips the Messy Details
StudentNation

'A Punk Prayer' distills the group's protest and trial into a parable on Vladimir Putin's free speech crackdown.

May 14, 2013
Outrage Grows Over the DOJ Seizure of AP Phone Records
Greg Mitchell

Another alleged "abuse of power" move adds to Obama administration crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers.

May 14, 2013
While Congress Debates Immigration, Deportations Rage On
Aura Bogado

Advocates are pleading Obama to suspend the deportations of those who would gain status under a new immigration bill.

May 13, 2013
Guns Are a Right, Yes—but Do They Have to Be?
Mychal Denzel Smith

The question we are avoiding: Is the right to bear arms worth all the death?

May 10, 2013
Suicides or Hate Crimes in Immigrant Detention?
Aura Bogado

Two Guatemalan immigrants apparently commited suicide just two days apart at an Arizona detention center. Some are wondering if their deaths were hate crimes.

May 9, 2013
GOP Immigration Amendments Boost Drones, Incarceration and Criminalization
Lee Fang

Meanwhile, Republicans oppose green cards for same-sex couples.

May 8, 2013
Assata Shakur Is Not a Terrorist
Mychal Denzel Smith

The former Black Panther has become the first woman placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list and reminds us that the struggle for freedom is far from over. 

May 7, 2013
Lessons to Learn From Arizona's New Gun Laws
Mychal Denzel Smith

The state’s recent legislation turns its gun-buyback program into a recycling initiative and underscores the necessity for federal action. 

May 2, 2013
Stop-and-Frisk Under Fire
Nation in the News

An aggressive, racially charged stop-and-frisk captured on audio helped raise the debate about the police tactic.

May 2, 2013
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