Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

Find out how educator Daniel P. Gonzales played a critical role in the making of ethnic and Asian American studies at San Francisco State.

Graph showing who profits from mass incarceration. (Hint: It's not just the private prison companies.)

KAPOW! Turning campaigns into community, with Kat Abughazaleh and Common Power

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss' campaign admitted Tuesday that a 2004 relationship Biss had with a former undergraduate student of his at the University of

Republicans and Democrats in Kansas Legislature take bright-line approach to questions about Charlie Kirk's use of First Amendment right to speech.

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

The GOP-led Kansas House and Senate on Wednesday approved a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people, after the House debated for hours.

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Lorissa Rinehart on Substack

FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...

“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the civil arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote on a Republican-backed congre...

Many communities want to use data to reduce poverty and expand economic mobility, but they’ll need more support to do so effectively.,When it comes to using data to effect change and ensure equitable ...

Logan Square farmers market attendees are flocking to a table in the boulevard to have their portrait drawn by Jacob Ryan Reno for $5 — and he's "bewildered" as to why.

Evanston, a city often celebrated for its progressive ideals, is grappling with a silent, yet devastating, crisis: the accelerating decline of its Black

Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented enforcement of an Arkansas law limiting the number of voters someone can assist at the polls.