Incarceration is politically disempowering, teaching lessons of civic exclusion and voicelessness. Although this is well-documented, incarcerated people's ...

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Connecticut has a traffic violence problem. Blaming and shaming victims of traffic violence is not the purpose of this page.  Every time a driver hits a person, ask these questions in this order: (1) ...

Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

America’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind…

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.

No video. No independent witness. Just ICE's word — the same word that didn't hold up the last three times.

Graphic novels featuring or created by disabled creators!

This formerly sealed stockholder derivative complaint alleges that the Trump administration extorted Intel into giving it 9.9% of its common stock, plus warrant

Days after an appeals court ruled that some people should automatically get certificates of innocence, state legislators passed a bill to raise compensation for wrongful convictions.

From California to Illinois to Oregon, flourishing anarchist libraries are spreading knowledge and building community.

About the Library Field The Library Field is a project of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). METRO’s mission is to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open e...

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.

A majority of Yale University faculty members say their academic freedom has decreased in recent years, and half fear losing their jobs for teaching about controversial topics, according to a survey r...

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

Here & Gone is a public archive of art and signs that memorialize where ICE abducted neighbors

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