With the Senate adjourned until 2026, the book is closed on President Donald Trump’s first-year judicial appointments. How much damage did he do this time around? In my view, a lot—his 26 appointees ...

The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to ...

From the “judges” deciding cases to the “rules” of evidence, every aspect of immigration court is stacked against the people ...

Deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition, since 2021 ...

After a disastrous showing in the November 2025 elections and under pressure from President Donald Trump, many Republican-controlled legislatures are looking to (further) gerrymander their states ...

Earlier this year, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced a new direction for the paper’s opinion section, which, he said, would write “every day in support and defense” of two “pillars” of ...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump held one of his trademark rallies at a casino resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. As is usually the case when Trump has a microphone and a captive audience, he ...

When Joseph Clifton Smith, an Alabama man who was convicted of murder in 1998, was in third grade, he needed help reading at a first-grade level. His teachers ordered further testing, which yielded an ...

Democratic candidates for state and local office won decisive victories last month in dozens of elections across the country. But apparently, Republicans aren’t letting rejection get them down: At a ...

Across the country, ICE is conducting a campaign of raids designed to terrify and destabilize immigrant communities. But as you read headlines about ICE rounding people up from Home Depot parking lots ...

In 2018, the Tennessee Department of Corrections brought Harold Wayne Nichols from death row to the Hamilton County Courthouse. He didn’t think he’d be going back to death row afterwards; his ...

Two weeks ago, a federal district court declared Texas Republicans’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and blocked it from taking ...