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New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, but at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.

How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.

The Arizona weirdo has compelled the Democrats to abandon taxing the rich—so they’re proposing to tax rich folks’ unearned gains.

The annual number of denials have risen sharply. If people who are in fact disabled are too discouraged to apply or are being denied benefits, then the program is not performing the function for which it was designed.

The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.

Students at Michele Clark High were relieved to return to classes, but shootings on the West Side mean that their problems are far from over.

An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.

While abortion has long been aggressively criminalized in Brazil, in the past few years, anti-abortion zeal has reached a fever pitch. In response, abortion activist networks support and guide women through at-home procedures.

What happened to Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known African American to die in the Gulag?

Though the growth of the prison industry has been well documented, there is virtually no documentation and even less news about the imprisonment of many who would be considered political prisoners by any international human rights standards.