Missouri

Attorney General Josh Hawley is demanding answers about the social media company's data-sharing practices with campaigns.

• By Kate Wheeling

During oral arguments for a lawsuit between the Satanic Temple and Missouri over abortion restrictions, the state solicitor general debunked the notion that an ultrasound is legally required for any woman seeking an abortion. That in itself is a minor miracle.

• By Jack Denton

Facing a shortage of space for inmates, Missouri's Greene County Jail opted to build an insta-prison in the parking lot. Is that OK?

• By Daniel A. Gross

Marcellus Williams maintains his innocence, and his supporters argue racial discrimination also played a role in his trial outcome.

• By Kate Wheeling

Dissenting justices argued the ruling weakens the country's long-standing separation between church and state.

• By Morgan Baskin

Your guide to the Department of Justice's agreement with the Ferguson Police Department.

• By Allison Shapiro

In St. Louis, Missouri, an effort to manage enormous caseloads left hundreds of the city's poorest without a lawyer.

• By Steven Hsieh

The mysterious "patriot" group returned to Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death.

• By Jared Keller

The Justice Department’s “Ferguson Report” will join a small number of significant public documents to be bound and sent to bookstores.

• By Lauren Kirchner

The events of summer 2014 in a small town in Missouri are a culmination of decades of reports about race, policing, and class. We review Ferguson news in the larger research context.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A new report by the Justice Department in the Ferguson investigation shows just how far racial bias can extend.

• By Wes Judd

Local police departments should reflect the communities they serve, but fixing that alone won’t curb unnecessary violence.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Pharmaceutical companies in the European Union are blocking off-label drugs for executions.

• By Marc Herman

Last year, activists in Missouri tried to limit what high-cost lenders can charge. The ensuing fight exposed something that rarely comes into view so vividly: the high-cost lending industry’s ferocious efforts to stay legal and stay in business.

• By Paul Kiel