Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unliveable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them.
A transgender rights activist holds a flag during the Trans Day of Visibility rally on the National Mall on March...
Courts
The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and Losing
The Trump administration is on a losing streak against some of its loudest critics, as federal cases targeting opponents of...
My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took the unusual step last month of threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to...
Prosecutor Floating Death Penalty for Nick Reiner Knows It’s an Empty Threat
The headlines came fast and furious: Nick Reiner, 32, could face the death penalty for murdering his own parents, beloved...
Bukele challenges Hillary Clinton to take El Salvador’s entire prison population after criticism
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele responded to allegations by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the conditions at the...
StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing.
When Oregon music teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she...
Deportation, Inc.
The most defining feature of Donald Trump’s first year back in office has been the brutality of his deportation machine...
Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed
On the same day the state of Georgia issued a death warrant for Stacey Ian Humphreys, setting his execution for...
Longtime Paid FBI Informant Was Instrumental in Terror Case Against “Turtle Island Liberation Front”
An FBI investigation into an alleged terror plot in Southern California bears the familiar hallmarks of the bureau’s long-running use...
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
Alabama Deputy Solicitor general Robert Overing approached the podium at the U.S. Supreme Court on a mission: to convince the...
Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus
As of December 1, officials across the U.S. have executed 44 people in 11 states, making 2025 one of the...
Episode Eight: Legalized Takings
In 1992, Donald Scott, the eccentric owner of a large Malibu estate, was killed in his home by an ad...
Teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing 15-year-old student weeks after giving birth: report
An Australian high school teacher has pleaded guilty in a New South Wales court to sexually abusing a teenage boy...
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Sandra never knew what happened to the child she had at 17. Growing up in a respected, church-going, middle-class family...
Pope Leo XIV strongly supports US bishops’ condemnation of Trump immigration raids: ‘Extremely disrespectful’
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly affirmed U.S. bishops' message condemning the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, calling on Americans to...
