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The Roberts Court has shifted away from the very collective values and ideas that will be necessary to enact—and uphold—crucial policies on guns and mental health.

After taking some hits, the movement for abortion rights is pushing back—and has some new tricks up its sleeve.

The Pentagon is intent on pursuing its own global version of the Second Amendment.

It's the wrong response to incidents like Newtown.

Rick Perlstein joins Bryce Covert and George Zornick to explore the serpentine shifts and strange bedfellows of gun control politics. 

A decade after Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied death row and pardoned four innocent men who were tortured by police under Commander Jon Burge, the city of Chicago has not admitted to its collective crimes.

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.

Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a fifty-five-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears.

Democrats introduced a gun control bill on the first day of the new Congress. But can they overcome the NRA?