Rights & Justice

Women are the backbone of the Somali society. They’re also better skilled in community relations and management skills than the males.

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and documentarian Deia Schlosberg have been arrested for committing journalism.

Is the federal government wavering on pushing through ill-advised oil transportation?

“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access pipeline.”

As the remnants of Hurricane Matthew recede, the warnings and evacuations in the Caribbean and US east coast are giving way to rescue efforts and clean-up operations.

Residents “are still not drinking water. They are still afraid of the water.”

Ariad Pharmaceuticals' stock dropped $387 million in just one day.

Our system of inverted totalitarianism has within it the seeds of an overt or classical fascism.

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.

“These charges are based on eight months of investigation by the FBI that is alleged to have taken the investigators deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence.”