When he sat down for his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, attorney general nominee Todd Blanche had his work cut out for him. In the decades since Watergate, the Justice Department has built ...

I will say this about Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who died on Saturday at 71: He had Donald Trump clocked right from the jump. During the 2016 presidential primary, Graham, ...

A familiar American story has unfolded over the past few days: A famously corrupt judicial body made an unprecedented decision on Sunday, granting an emergency request by President Donald Trump to set ...

On Tuesday morning, the United States Supreme Court came exactly one vote away from holding that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mean what it says—that “all persons born or naturalized in the United ...

Months before the 2020 election, as tens of millions of people prepared to vote by mail in the midst of a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump was already laying the groundwork for challenging the ...

For nearly 20 years, Damon Landor adhered to the Nazarite Vow to let his hair “grow long” and let “no razor come upon his head.” And by August 2020, when he began a five-month sentence for drug ...

Since August of last year, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has been building and operating a fleet of gas-fired combustion turbines in Memphis-area Black neighborhoods, in order to ...

For the past several weeks, hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a labor and hunger strike. Participants in the strike are ...

Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court’s recent party-line decision destroying what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is riddled with half-truths and whole lies. Writing for the six-justice ...

In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the ...

In August 1991, Charles “Sonny” Burton was one of six men involved in the deadly robbery of an AutoZone in Talladega, Alabama. But he did not kill, encourage the killing, or even witness the killing ...