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After Boston, we must proceed with caution—and respect the rule of law.

Daniel Villegas was 16 when he confessed to a double murder en El Paso. But almost 20 years later, he insists he's innocent, and the evidence backs him up.

A GAO examination of the Independent Foreclosure Review reveals massive levels of incompetence and negligence.

Two-thirds of immigrants to America are women and children. But current immigration policy and past reform proposals are, as the author calls it, "sexclusionary."

Gay rights advocates were hoping that the Court would issue a broad ruling, but the justices seem most concerned with issues of standing.

At the same time that Brooklyn residents poured into the streets over the killing of Kimani Gray, NYPD officers took the stand to describe the department's racist tactics.

Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

Collecting DNA upon arrest can identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent. But it also amounts to an expanding racial dragnet.

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?