Social Justice

Se calcula que 524,000 niños trabajan inimaginables largas horas en los agotadores campos agrícolas de Estados Unidos, y todo es perfectamente legal.

Martin fled Cameroon when security forces imprisoned his father and started regularly raiding Anglophone villages. The U.S. government might send him back.

If human civilization begins to expand into space, will colonists feel loyalty to their country, their planet, or Elon Musk?

The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain communities are often left behind.

It will be years until NASA is ready for a journey to the red planet, but if Earth continues to suffer from climate change, Mars could come to us.

Changes to the Title X family planning programs have brought onboard a new kind of reproductive health clinic. What does that mean for patients?

HUD reached a deal with Los Angeles to improve disability access, but has left other discrimination cases unaddressed.

Activists warn the practice of detaining people at courthouses and other government venues has discouraged immigrants from cooperating with authorities, even when they are victims of violent crimes.

Settlements with two big United Kingdom-based banks over financial crisis-era misdeeds reveal how the Trump administration has eased up on white-collar criminals.

The FBI labeled conspiracy mongering a domestic terror threat. What does that mean for Donald Trump and others who propagate misinformation?

The strategy is complicated by the sheer number of guns in American homes—nearly half of the total number of firearms worldwide.

The choice to treat the El Paso, Texas, shooting as domestic terrorism opens up law enforcement's ability to investigate 8chan and the sites where extremism finds a home.

A new ayahuasca "experience" at the Tribeca Film Festival puts the question of whether drug trips can be artificially recreated to the test.

National Grid sent many New York customers an email encouraging them to contact state officials in support of pipeline construction or risk shortages.

The creator of the TSA's body-scanning tech says that a gender button is unnecessary and ineffective.

After being controlled by the federal government for over a century, could Puerto Rico be on a path to statehood?

President Donald Trump's use of the the word "infest" in tweets to an African-American congressman to describe a majority-black city is part of a larger pattern.

The left-right divide—a healthy feature of a pluralist political system—is so toxic now that divergence of opinion has surpassed the realm of policymaking.

Some recommendations from the authors and editor of the Unseen America story package.

Health and Human Services removed HIV from a list of communicable diseases that bar immigrants from entry into the United States in 2010.

Accountants have been attempting to investigate what they believe to be financial mismanagement since 2018, but attempts were thwarted according to a senior employee.

When a few agribusinesses have all the power, one choice by them can determine the course of a farmer's entire production. Will 2020 change that?

Without the fanfare of a bill signing or a Supreme Court decision, the first state without an abortion clinic is in sight.

Immigrant rights advocates are set to bring one of the first legal challenges against a city that allegedly contravened the California Values Act.