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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The People Trump's War on Drugs Will Actually Punish
His campaign, backed by the Justice Department, only reinforces a law-enforcement paradigm that puts people of color in prison.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP When Republicans Attack States' Rights
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s lawsuit against California’s immigration policies reflects a common fair-weather federalism.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Trumping of the FBI
The president and his allies don’t want to protect the bureau’s political independence—they want to subvert it.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Assault on the Body of the Church’
Catholic parishes have been hit hard by President Trump’s decision to suspend Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Government Officials Have You Arrested for Speaking to Them?
The Supreme Court faces a test of the authority of politicians to use police to silence their critics.
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Dola Sun Americans Don't Really Understand Gun Violence
Why? Because there's very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings.
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AP The Long History of Black Officers Reforming Policing From Within
Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump’s agenda are inspiring some police to more vocal advocacy. But their project—ending racial bias in the profession—is a decades-old one.
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Ted Spiegel / Getty Images The Baltimore Cops Studying Plato and James Baldwin
Training programs help officers brush up on policing techniques and best practices. But in one instructor’s course, they study literature, history, and philosophy instead.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Now It's Liberal States Clashing With the Federal Government Over Religious Freedom
California, Pennsylvania, and others have sued over new policies on contraceptive coverage.
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Marvin Gentry / Reuters Roy Moore Tests the Limits of Bannon's 'Season of War'
The mounting charges against the Republican Senate candidate from Alabama are causing uncertainty for the Breitbart chief and his allies.
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Reuters The Particular Horror of Church Shootings
Twenty-six people were killed in an attack in Sutherland Springs, Texas, adding to the long list of houses of worship hit with gun violence.
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Hilary Swift The Quiet Religious-Freedom Fight That Is Remaking America
A federal law was supposed to put an end to the use of local zoning laws as tools of discrimination. It hasn't.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Selective Memory
The attorney general’s sworn testimony before the Senate is at odds with other accounts.
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Charles Dharapak / AP Capitol Hill's Sexual-Harassment Problem
Congress has all the necessary elements for a perfect storm of predation.
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Library of Congress What Is a 'Proactive Cooperator'?
Former Trump foreign-policy aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents during the Russia investigation, may have been secretly cooperating with investigators for months.
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G. Newman Lowrance / Getty Images Stanching the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Recent reports highlight school disciplinary practices and suggest ways to stop them.
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Keith Lane / Getty How the Manafort Indictment Gave Bite to a Toothless Law
The prosecution of Trump’s former campaign chairman and his associate Rick Gates could be the most significant prosecution under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ever.
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters When Can Private Entities Censor Speech?
Trump’s pressure on the NFL to censor its players is a First Amendment issue.
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Julie Dermansky / Getty Images New Orleans' Great Bail-Reform Experiment
The most incarcerated city in the most incarcerated state is experimenting with programs to reduce its jail population. And so far, they seem to be working.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Department of Justice Takes a Stand Against Transgender Rights in the Workplace
A new memo rescinds an Obama-era policy on gender-identity discrimination, setting the stage for a possible Supreme Court fight.
