Ending Private Prisons at the Federal Level Marks a Major Movement Victory
The DOJ’s announcement is certainly not a knock-out blow for private prison firms. But it's a start.
Former state legislator and NBA player sentenced to prison for accepting bribes
“My life has been about helping everyone. But in this case, I failed.”
Wisconsin AG sues to stop Musk’s voter cash giveaway as courts allow $1 million...
Attorney General Josh Kaul argued Musk’s multimillion-dollar voter giveaway violated state bribery laws, but legal challenges failed to block the handouts before Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court election.
Video shows officer shooting unarmed man in jail cell
Although the officer violated policy by wearing his Taser on the same side as his firearm, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub determined that the error did not constitute a violation of law.
Blackwater mercenary sentenced to life in prison
Responsible for firing the first bullet in the Nisour Square massacre in 2007, former Blackwater security contractor Nicholas Slatten was sentenced Wednesday to life in federal prison. Last year, Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder...
Sallie Mae’s Hawaii retreat while millions struggle to repay loans bolsters argument to ‘cancel...
Critics of the United States' student debt crisis took aim at loan corporation Sallie Mae on Friday after NBC News reported on a trip the company's executives...
Girding for the education fight ahead
“If progressive education … is to be effective over the next several years, it will have to focus strategically on statehouses, school boards, city councils, and mayoral races.”
A progressive response to Trump’s inaugural
It takes creativity to fashion an effective strategy that would restore democratic power to all people equally.
Juneteenth: A celebration of black liberation & day to remember “horrific system that was...
Juneteenth is “much more complicated and much more complex than is traditionally presented,” increased recognition of the day “provides an opportunity to have a thorough remembrance of this horrific system that was slavery.”
Pruitt flings open EPA doors to anti-science conservative ideologues
Pruitt refused to recuse himself from eight ongoing lawsuits against the EPA that he helped file as Oklahoma’s top prosecutor.