In 2012, Scott Gandy walked into an Army recruitment office in North Carolina. Asked if he had any tattoos, Gandy revealed several large...

When Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, threw his hat into the presidential race, he was widely expected to be to the...

The Political Theory Project hosts Bernard Harcourt, from Columbia Law School, and Naomi Murakawa, from Princeton University. Together,...

The shooting at Umpqua Community College is not going to lead to gun regulations. Neither will the shootings of the five people killed in...

At 12:20 a.m. on September 29, 2015, Kelly Gissendaner was just one of the 53 women on death row throughout the United States. The next...

Slain five-year-olds, lethal movie premiers, massacred students: American citizens have become numb to these tragedies as they experience...

Nearly three times as many Americans per year are dying from overdoses on painkillers and prescription drugs today than in 2001. Over the...

Unless you have been completely removed from American political discourse and the news media, for the last few weeks, you have surely...

This article was written in response to the Political Theory Project’s Constitution Day lecture on The Right to Face Your Accuser: Child...

Charles Blow is the Visual Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, where his weekly column appears every Saturday. Blow’s columns tackle...

Should the Confrontation Clause limit the admissibility of children’s statements to mandatory child abuse reporters? Richard Friedman...

March 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s flagship policy and potentially his enduring...

Derek West Harris was an easygoing, chatty barber who went by D-Nice. In 2009, Harris was arrested for failing to register his new car...

It’s been a little over a year since Rhode Island’s “Ban the Box” law went into effect, making it the sixth state in the country to...

Having déjà vu? The Affordable Care Act is once again facing a significant challenge in the Supreme Court this week. The piece of...

When you place a pod of ready-to-brew coffee into one of Keurig’s squat, iconic machines and press the ‘go’ button, you can be sure of a...

The prison-industrial complex (PIC), as defined by Critical Resistance, refers to the vast networks of institutions and systems that...

On January 26, the Supreme Court received a petition to hear Friedrichs vs. California Teacher’s Association. Although the case is yet to...

Paul Gosar, a Republican congressman from Arizona, recently got into trouble for calling Native American tribes “wards of the federal...

On September 22, 2001, President Bush announced that the 9/11 terrorist attacks had “awakened the United States to danger, and called it...