How Pope Francis Vindicated the Immigrant Rights Movement How Pope Francis Vindicated the Immigrant Rights Movement
By framing immigration as a moral challenge, rather than a criminal one, activists say the pope reinforced much of the work they are doing to challenge dehumanizing rhetoric.
Sep 24, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
The Pope’s Powerful Message to Congress: Don’t Discard America’s Immigrants The Pope’s Powerful Message to Congress: Don’t Discard America’s Immigrants
How geopolitics often hurts the world’s poor and vulnerable was a central theme of the pope’s speech.
Sep 24, 2015 / George Zornick
Pope Francis Delivers Sophie Cruz’s Message to Congress Pope Francis Delivers Sophie Cruz’s Message to Congress
Francis to Congress: “Thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones.… Is this not what we want for our own childre...
Sep 24, 2015 / Julianne Hing
The Rise and Fall of Guatemala’s Most Feared General The Rise and Fall of Guatemala’s Most Feared General
Otto Pérez Molina started his rise to power during a US-backed dirty war. The uprising against impunity that brought him down has been waiting in the wings ever since.
Sep 24, 2015 / Jesse Franzblau
Illegal Abortion Is Dangerous, Birth Control Works, and Other Inconvenient Truths for Pro-Lifers Illegal Abortion Is Dangerous, Birth Control Works, and Other Inconvenient Truths for Pro-Lifers
Ross Douthat thinks abortion could be criminalized without sacrificing women’s equality or well-being. He’s sorely mistaken.
Sep 24, 2015 / Column / Katha Pollitt
This Isn’t the Roberts Court—It’s the Kennedy Court This Isn’t the Roberts Court—It’s the Kennedy Court
The Court’s results are mixed, not because of John Roberts’s leadership but because of Anthony Kennedy’s more balanced commitments.
Sep 24, 2015 / Feature / David Cole
The Death of the Class-Action Lawsuit? The Death of the Class-Action Lawsuit?
Class actions were the weapon of the people—until the Roberts Court made it nearly impossible to file one.
Sep 24, 2015 / Feature / Herman Schwartz
Think Police Can’t Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again. Think Police Can’t Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again.
Thanks to the Roberts Court, there’s no penalty for ignoring a key 4th Amendment protection.
Sep 24, 2015 / Feature / Paul Butler
Unions in Jeopardy Unions in Jeopardy
For decades the Supreme Court supported rules to protect collective bargaining. That era is over.
Sep 24, 2015 / Feature / Lily Eskelsen García
John Roberts Dismantled the ‘Crown Jewel’ of the Civil-Rights Movement John Roberts Dismantled the ‘Crown Jewel’ of the Civil-Rights Movement
The Supreme Court said that times have changed. So why were 180 restrictive voting laws passed after it gutted the Voting Rights Act?
Sep 24, 2015 / Feature / Theodore M. Shaw