Justice

Alleged sexual violence by Cesar Chavez reflects not just one leader’s failure, but a broader system of control within the UFW.

Two recent books take on the Bernie Goetz shooting—with differing results.

Blue Power arrives in Washington.

Santa Maria ostracized Rev. Heist for speaking out for Japanese Americans. Today, his courage resonates anew.

For a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Texas was home to a working-class, populist environmental movement. What might its legacy be today?

Lessons on social movement organizing from the group's intellectual influences, grassroots actions, and response to relentless state political repression.

In his quest for racial equality, Martin Luther King Jr. never lost faith in America’s founding promise.

Cesar Chavez's name is forever tainted following a recent, horrific report. Dallas should now move to strike Henry Wade's name from the juvenile justice center.

In 1992, the tiny, unincorporated village of Naples, Idaho became the ground zero of a national movement of far-right, anti-government activists and agitators.

A sharp critique of nursing institutions’ inaction, highlighting activist nurses who push for justice and expose gaps between words and action.

Charting a new path after the Chavez revelations.

It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.

The Court’s new ruling revives religion in public life—but is it restoring tradition, or reshaping the boundary between church and state?

The Clean Air Act gave California the authority to issue tough pollution standards for vehicles, with EPA approval. Now Trump is trying to stop it.

For the Supreme Court to accept the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, it would have to repudiate the Constitution.

Fringe elements of American society have never accepted that birthright citizenship is the law of the land.

Trump’s bid to strip birthright citizenship from millions is a moral, administrative, and legal catastrophe.

The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.

Nazi influence grew in 1930s America via the Bund, sparking backlash, mob resistance, and major FBI efforts to expose and dismantle spy networks.

Mussel Slough reminds us that the Feds never fight fair and that people can rise up and reform the system.

Native Americans in the 1940s struggled simultaneously to secure voting rights and protect the reservations that formed the basis for their disenfranchisement.

His crimes against women and his 'too big to fail' persona created immeasurable harm.

Antiwar movements succeed through broad, focused mass action, not sectarian rhetoric or liberal compromise, using Vietnam-era lessons for today.

How a fringe idea made its way from rural France to the heart of American power.

His work with gang members in Chicago shows how much he valued the part played by young people in the Black freedom struggle.

In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her descent into bigotry.

On the recovery of queer history long obscured by state censorship.

In modern US history, there has never been an attack on free expression quite like Donald Trump’s.