Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.

“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people ...

Will the Court Authorize Emergency Power Based on Falsehood?

In 2011, Johns Hopkins acquired the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries to study how fabricated texts have shaped history.

Some books written decades ago return to us, with a renewed relevance, in critical times. Richard Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of 1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is one. The …

Stretched out in the sunshine, even the flimsiest things radiate inner light.