As Boston Ends Desegregation Busing, Students Face New Inequities As Boston Ends Desegregation Busing, Students Face New Inequities
Without a mechanism to ensure equality of access in all Boston communities, it's inevitable that wealthier communities will have access to the good schools.
Apr 8, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
Former Walmart District Manager Accuses Company of Widespread Inventory Manipulation Former Walmart District Manager Accuses Company of Widespread Inventory Manipulation
The charges form the crux of a federal discrimination lawsuit that goes to trial this month.
Apr 5, 2013 / Spencer Woodman
Dispatches From the US Student Movement: April 2 Dispatches From the US Student Movement: April 2
This week, students fight for racial justice from Texas to Binghamton. The 2013 National Student Power Convergence is in the works. And Colorado students walk out on standardized t...
Apr 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part the Last: Do Something!) Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part the Last: Do Something!)
Ultimately, whether a party cements its gains depends not on demographics but performance.
Apr 1, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
The Dark Side of DNA Evidence The Dark Side of DNA Evidence
Collecting DNA upon arrest can identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent. But it also amounts to an expanding racial dragnet.
Mar 27, 2013 / Jason Silverstein
Kill the Child, Spare the Lamb Kill the Child, Spare the Lamb
As The New York Times worries about the difficulties of preparing vegan food for Seder, what about the difficulties of celebrating a plague that killed all firstborn Egyptian child...
Mar 26, 2013 / Robert Scheer
Ross Tuttle: The Heavy Hands Behind Stop-and-Frisk Ross Tuttle: The Heavy Hands Behind Stop-and-Frisk
In Floyd v. City of New York, stop-and-frisk is on the stand—bringing to light police dissent with the NYPD’s discriminatory policies.
Mar 25, 2013 / Press Room
‘Gideon v. Wainwright’, Fifty Years Later ‘Gideon v. Wainwright’, Fifty Years Later
In its historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled that poor people have a right to a lawyer. But today, our system of indigent defense is shameful.
Mar 20, 2013 / Stephen B. Bright and Sia M. Sanneh
Native Americans Are Not Munchkins: An Open Letter to Michelle Williams Native Americans Are Not Munchkins: An Open Letter to Michelle Williams
For Native Americans, there's no place like home—especially when offensive imagery and racist policies threaten to take it away.
Mar 12, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Supreme Court: Uphold the Voting Rights Act! Supreme Court: Uphold the Voting Rights Act!
Section 5 is as necessary today as it was in 1965, when Alabama state troopers beat freedom marchers in Selma.
Mar 6, 2013 / Ari Berman