Justice

In a new campaign to establish global privacy standards, Edward Snowden along with others proposed the International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers. Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, discusses the treaty.

“The Justice Department will continue to vigorously prosecute officers who abuse their authority to make clear that no one is above the law.”

Texas’ new anti-abortion law has just gone into effect after the Supreme Court refused to step in. Here’s what it means.

The fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma this past weekend was a look back at living history. It was also a moment to remember the martyrs of the civil-rights movement then and now. Will bringing together past and present help shape a new future?

Lawyers for Mumia Abu-Jamal speak out defending prisoner rights and challenging Pennsylvania's penal system for preventing them from seeing their client during his hospitalizations. This is just the latest attack on Abu-Jamal and all prisoners.

From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in communities of color than in the general...

Federal regulators and state prosecutors are still investigating the company, which made $2 billion dollars last year.

The story fails to disclose several key pieces of information.

What better way to understand the dangers of plastic pollution than by traveling on a ship made out of garbage?

Not surprisingly, Arpaio endorsed Trump's presidential candidacy in January 2016.