Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

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.

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.

Every year around Valentine’s Day, traffic on the Lowell House Speeches Project’s Vimeo page spikes.

A sliding-scale model plus a bit of creativity allows Open Legal Services to represent those with few other options.

For many Americans, legal services are out of reach. But that's beginning to change.

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?

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.

Americans may admire a politician who can play hardball, but it matters whether his victim is a political opponent or an innocent citizen.

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.

The president has replaced the moral case for reform with a transactional one. That's a mistake.

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.