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A DOJ probe into the mental health program at a medium security prison could put solitary confinement on trial.

If our brains act according to the causal laws governing all matter, in what sense can we be said to be free?

Texas jurors were told that convicted murderer Duane Buck posed “future dangerousness” because he is black. He was scheduled to die on September 15 but received a last-minute reprieve.

Is a vote for Bachmann actually a vote for her husband?

As a mentoring program shows, the arc of a child’s life can be altered by a single stable adult.

Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

The politics of the Templeton Foundation's "Big Questions."

Runner Caster Semenya showed up to race this week and the International Association of Athletics Federations wouldn't let her--when Semenya's only "crime" is that she may be intersex.

Savage budget cuts and political dysfunction are tearing California's social infrastructure apart.