...Darius Charney, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said some police departments, like New York City, can have officers accused of misconduct go through a public disciplinary...
As part of its Amending America initiative , the National Archives and Records Administration presents the National Conversation on Rights and Justice: Building a More Perfect Union. Participants...
Street stops by New York City police officers have plunged since 2011 and a new statistical analysis by a federal monitor concludes that the racial disparity in stops is narrowing. The analysis,...
All Americans cherish free speech in principle — not so much in practice, and perhaps particularly not when the subject is Palestine. The controversy at Fordham University over its refusal to allow...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
This week on CounterSpin : After 9/11, hundreds of non-citizen Muslim, Arab and South Asian men should be locked up and treated as suspected terrorists, despite no evidence of terrorist connections...
The Trump administration appears to be making its first moves toward fulfilling a campaign promise to fill the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with “bad dudes.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy...
Imagine a government that kidnaps , tortures , rapes , and kills . Now imagine one that forces people into slavery . These horrors sound like things that happen to people who live in far away...
As the nation marked the 230th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution this Monday, the speakers who gathered at Teachers College illuminated the challenges of American jurisprudence in our society’s...
