Justice

Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union released the findings Wednesday with a call for states and the federal government to decriminalize low-level drug offenses, which, it says—the report says, account for more arrests than any other crime.

“Water privatization has failed communities across the country and must be rejected in all its forms.”

Tell Congress “Don’t Duck Democracy!”

What more do we (or prosecutors) have to know to understand only the strongest penalties curb the madness jeopardizing our elections?

The girl, whose parents are U.S. citizens, was barred from boarding a plane yesterday and is now in limbo in Djibouti.

The final passage of the USA Freedom Act has many civil-liberties credentials rejoicing. But why is it that people in Europe and elsewhere, who care about civil liberties and want true press freedom, look to the U.S. surveillance state?

Growing numbers of voters will mark their ballots at home, latest data finds.

What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?

While none of this is news to climate scientists, it will be news to many conservatives.

“This is not a case about mismanagement, or sloppy accounting, or ‘mistakes,' Duncan Hunter intentionally took money that did not belong to him and used it for his own benefit.”