Guantánamo stands out as one of the most extreme examples of how people’s lives can be totally ruined not because they actually did anything wrong, but because it was simply not politically advantageous for anyone to care what happened to them.

Children's liberation movements have challenged the notion that limited responsibilities for young people must come with limited rights.

From prisons and policing to the environment, Louisiana’s new leader is making everything worse.

Trump’s policies killed many people in the United States and around the world. Hush money is the least of his crimes. But an honest confrontation of his worst offenses creates complications for a political class that commits crimes routinely.

Jeet Heer discusses the publication that was once “the in-flight magazine of Air Force One,” which he says “promoted many of the worst decisions in modern American history.”

The best, the worst, and everything in between.

Let’s be clear. The right poses an unparalleled threat. Left criticism of Democrats is in part about preventing the return of Trump.

One needn’t be a devout Muslim, or a religious believer of any kind, to find value in the idea there is a higher good than profit, and there is a higher authority than the will of bankers and shareholders.