When a Prison Sentence Becomes Unconstitutional
In a sense, as Abduel Poe’s mother would later put it, two lives were lost the evening of July 22, 1995.
Criminal Injustice
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
The Experience of Dignity: Community Courts
At the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, the idea is deceptively simple: People are more likely to get better if you treat them with fairness and respect.
Can David Still Sue Goliath?
Class-action lawsuits, a longtime check on powerful interests, are getting harder to file. Now, lawyers with large groups of clients are getting creative in reuniting the aggrieved.
The Lowell Speeches Project
Every year around Valentine’s Day, traffic on the Lowell House Speeches Project’s Vimeo page spikes.
The Utah Lawyers Who Are Making Legal Services Affordable
A sliding-scale model plus a bit of creativity allows Open Legal Services to represent those with few other options.
Is There Such a Thing as an Affordable Lawyer?
For many Americans, legal services are out of reach. But that's beginning to change.
The Polarized Partisan Geography of Inequality
Democrats represent some of the richest House districts—but they're also more likely to have deeply unequal constituencies. Is that why the party is more focused on income disparities?
Citizen Soldier
Seth W. Moulton ’01, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’11, must be the first person to have joined the U.S. Marines because he played the organ.
A Tale of Two Bullies: Why Chris Christie Is No Lyndon Johnson
Americans may admire a politician who can play hardball, but it matters whether his victim is a political opponent or an innocent citizen.
Is Teach for America Good for America?
Teach for America (TFA), an AmeriCorps program that provides an accelerated path for elite college graduates to spend two years teaching in low-income community schools, is as prominent—and as controversial—as ever.
How Obamacare Lost Its Soul
The president has replaced the moral case for reform with a transactional one. That's a mistake.
In the Valley
Congratulations on making it to this day.
Twelve years ago, I stepped away from playing an auto-racing computer game with a friend to answer a ringing telephone. The call was from my parents’ doctor.
Twelve years ago, I stepped away from playing an auto-racing computer game with a friend to answer a ringing telephone. The call was from my parents’ doctor.
