Justice
June 9, 2011 -
If you're a Republican legislator eager to
June 9, 2011 -
By Marian Wang, ProPublica
June 2, 2011 -
Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children from attending the school prom.
May 30, 2011 -
In 1865, formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina, held a procession to honor Union soldiers who had died in a local Confederate prison camp. Known as "Decoration Day," the ceremony foreshadowed what would become our modern Memorial Day.
May 26, 2011 -
The controversy began in December 2009, when Sue Sturgis received an automated call at her home asking questions about her views on education in Wake County, N.C., the site of bitter controversy over the school system's diversity policy.
May 24, 2011 -
The Supreme Court's ruling this week that California's prisons are so overcrowded it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment -- requiring the release of 30,000 prisoners -- is rightly being heralded as a landmark case for the rights of the incarcerated.