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Opinion | Environmental Law Is Changing in Defense of the Planet and the Climate

by Dana Zartner August 6, 2025August 6, 2025

Dana Zartner writes on different legal strategies, including “rights of nature,” that are used to protect the environment.

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Editor’s Note | If the Government Can Disappear 238 Men to El Salvador, It Can Disappear You, Too

by Ashton Pittman April 21, 2025April 21, 2025

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What to Know About the Alien Enemies Act, the 1798 Law Trump Invoked for Deportations

by Tim Sullivan, Elliot Spagat and Associated Press March 26, 2025March 26, 2025

Opinion | What Frederick Douglass Learned From an Irish Antislavery Activist: ‘Agitate, Agitate, Agitate’

by Christine Kinealy June 19, 2024January 15, 2025

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The Taliban’s War On Women In Afghanistan Is Gender Apartheid

by Vrinda Narain September 1, 2023June 11, 2024

A line of women against a green fence listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

The Black Women Who Sustained The Movement For Social Change

by Vicki Crawford March 9, 2023June 11, 2024

Opinion | Address Jackson Water Crisis, Then All Existing Systems Failing Our Children

by Nate SchumannSeptember 2, 2022February 16, 2026

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Opinion | ‘Clean Water Is A Human Right’: Jackson’s Water Crisis Is An Education Crisis

by Erica Jones August 26, 2022February 16, 2026

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With Abortion Rights in Danger, Mississippi Women Call Out ‘Pro-Life’ Hypocrisy

by Erica Hensley July 28, 2021June 24, 2024