Cruelty and Coercion: How ICE Abuses Hunger Strikers

A new report from the ACLU and Physicians for Human Rights details ICE’s abuse and retaliation against people who initiate hunger strikes in immigration detention.

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Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Means Fighting for Our Collective Rights

LGBTQ+ liberation will only ever come to fruition if we maintain a vision of full liberation for us all.

By Julio Capó, Jr.

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Britney Spears’ Reproductive Freedom is a Disability Rights Issue

Spears’ experience is part of a long history of people with disabilities — most often people of color — being robbed of the right to control their reproductive destinies.

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Jailed For a Faulty Battery and Left to Catch COVID-19

Abolishing restrictive monitoring is the next frontier of criminal, economic, and racial justice.

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Unaccompanied Children’s Well-Being Must Come First at Fort Bliss and Across Texas

Emergency steps were needed to remove children from Border Patrols facilities, but the Biden administration must now ensure the humane treatment of all migrant children in Texas.

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D.C. Statehood is Constitutional. Robert Kennedy Never Said Otherwise.

The nearly 700,000 residents of D.C. still lack full rights. It’s time to finally take the next step forward and pass the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.

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President Biden Can Prevent Over 4,000 People From Being Sent Back to Prison

If President Biden allows thousands of people to be sent back to federal prison, he would be presiding over the fastest expansion of the federal prison population in history.

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New Census Bureau Data Offers a Chance to Dismantle Prison Gerrymandering

With a new round of redistricting set to take place, states like New Mexico have a chance to end a practice that has long distorted our democracy.

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Without Social, Economic, and Political Equality, There is No Freedom

A Juneteenth meditation from the Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. of Riverside Church.

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