Why protecting prisons from COVID-19 is everyone’s problem
Understanding how the coronavirus threatens the lives of prisoners and prison officers is crucial to combating its spread and to safeguarding incarcerated people.
Read more‘We have been re-written into history’: Tribes cheer Interior secretary pick
A dedication to protecting the land has been a hallmark of Native American leaders – but so also have bipartisanship and pragmatism. Whichever party is in power, tribes have had to work with them. In an era of deeply divided government, those tools are needed.
Read moreHow will a Black Texas GOP chief nurture Trumpism after Trump?
The takeover of the Texas GOP by retired Lt. Col. Allen West – a Black Republican of unbending principles – mirrors President Donald Trump’s takeover of the party at the national level. The colonel’s popularity with the grassroots is a window on how Trumpism can survive the Trump presidency.
Read moreTrump, a Texas lawsuit, and democracy’s future
Texas has filed a lawsuit aimed at invalidating several states’ presidential results. It could be classified as simply hardball politics. But many say that it is flatly anti-democratic.
Read moreAs Biden lead grows, Trump campaign switches fight to courts
With the Trump campaign filing a flurry of legal challenges in multiple states, the election is “clearly moving from the political to the legal,” says legal commentator Jonathan Turley.
Read morePressure builds for US police to change military mindset
Breonna Taylor’s killing has heightened public concern across the ideological spectrum that the paramilitary mindset that pervades modern American policing endangers citizens rather than protects them.
Read moreRetired no more: A Texas octogenarian advocates for seniors
Whether it’s GrandPad tablets for doctor visits, virtual bingo, or city hall advocacy, this octogenarian knows how to help older people. Pandemic demands for senior citizen services brought her out of retirement.
Read moreWith Amy Coney Barrett, a once-fringe legal philosophy goes mainstream
Is the First Amendment the most important? Adherents of the conservative Christian legal movement believe so – particularly the Free Exercise clause, which they argue has been given short shrift as America has become less religious.
Read moreRuth Bader Ginsburg: Fierce women’s advocate, and icon in her own right
Rare is the Supreme Court justice able to create a distinct legacy. Rarer still is the justice able to create a distinct legacy, shape an entire area of the law, and become a pop culture icon: the fiery, jabot-wearing “Notorious RBG.”
Read moreHow do you ‘defund the police’ in Texas? Very carefully.
Activist calls to defund the police are playing out in city budget meetings in Texas, showing the limits of what is possible as well as points of agreement in funding public safety.
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