The regulation and policy framework surrounding the movement of migrants across borders has grown increasingly complex, dominating...

“No part of said property shall be occupied by any person not of the Caucasian race.” Although it was common for property deeds since the...

On March 10th, Congress began celebrating Sunshine Week, an informal celebration of government transparency led by the American Society...

In 2009, a homeless encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami attained international infamy when it was discovered that all the...

Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of...

Predictive policing, a practice carried out by tools like CrimeScan and PredPol, uses algorithmic systems to predict geographic areas...

New York is the fourth largest state in the nation with approximately 20 million residents spread throughout the state. 43% of New...

On December 18, 2018, Congress passed the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Each Person Act. As the...

“You have the right to remain silent… You have the right to an attorney… If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you at no...

A gun-toting, foul-mouthed, lethal-force-authorized U.S. Border Patrol, a President who’s rally cry is fear-mongering xenophobia, a plan...

On an April evening earlier this year, women wearing scarlet cloaks filed into the Rhode Island State House, oversized bonnets obscuring...

Hours after becoming the Harvard Law Review’s first Black president, a young Barack Obama was presented with more good news: Abner Mikva,...

Republicans have long accused Democrats of being the party of big federal government, but blue states are finding themselves in new...

When American founding father Elbridge Gerry said, “the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy,” he probably didn’t have...

In 2006, Officer Eddie Boyd of the St. Louis Missouri Police Department had to resign after pistol-whipping a child and falsifying the...

Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of...

Today, over two million people sit trapped in US prisons. The War on Drugs—which increased mandatory minimum sentences, stiffened...

One hundred feet underground, temperatures normally hover around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. In this man-made cave, however, it’s a cool 36....

As “smart” data-driven approaches have become increasingly common and successful in police departments across the country, a movement to...

Over one month after the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate about the...