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Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.
Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.
How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.
The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.
Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
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