News & Commentary

Existing Justice Department policies have not prevented abusive spying on reporters. The White House, Justice Department, and Congress need to...

By Jennifer Stisa Granick, Patrick Toomey

For years, ICE has been holding teenagers in indefinite detention thousands of miles away from their families. And it won’t tell anyone why.

By Ashoka Mukpo

We should empower patients to seek care by maintaining the strongest possible medical confidentiality rules instead of watering down critical...

By Noam Shemtov

We don’t need more shallow praise for “saving” the nation — we need Biden to cancel our student debt.

By Shakya Cherry-Donaldson

Immigration detention was cruel, abusive, and degrading before the pandemic hit — but as in so many other places, COVID-19 made the system's...

By Jessica Bansal

If Marsha and Sylvia taught us anything, it’s that if Pride doesn’t include all of us, it doesn’t hold meaning for any of us.

By AJ Hikes

In the U.S., it’s easy to think we’re in the final chapter of this global pandemic. Baseball stadiums have replaced cardboard cutouts with screaming fans, and the aroma of fresh popcorn is wafting once again from movie theaters’ open doors.  As of this recording, more than 60% of US adults...

This ruling is critically important to hold powerful online platforms accountable against discrimination.

By Esha Bhandari

To create and foster the genuine public safety BIPOC communities are demanding, we must address the lobbying power of police.

By Schanelle Saldanha

There were only 18 days last year that did not see a police officer kill a civilian in this country. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Walter Wallace Jr, Daniel Prude, and Rayshard Brooks, were among the 1,127 people killed by police last year. And we know that Black people are more than three times...