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A new campaign against robotic weapons systems is challenging society’s latest threat to peace.

Many progressives have accepted increased border security as a necessary tradeoff for getting a bill passed. The terms of this compromise will be paid in blood.

The unanimous decision is a victory for patients, women, scientists, doctors, researchers and human kind.

How to pre-convict and pre-punish an American Muslim.

Nearly five decades after Bloody Sunday in Selma, he’s in the fight of his life, as the Supreme Court threatens to overturn his signature achievement.

The outcome will effect far more than just the genetic test for breast cancer.

Following a landmark court ruling, the state is on deadline to release tens of thousands of people from prison. Is it succeeding?

Gun control advocates can take a page from Harry Truman’s long struggle for public health insurance. 

Like defense attorneys for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, I did my best to represent the ‘shoe-bomber,’ Richard Reid, when I was assigned to his case. But many less notorious defendants are not so lucky.

Prosecution of whistleblowers, dragnet seizure of phone records, the threatened criminalization of basic news-gathering—it’s dangerous for the media, and dangerous for democracy.