By Lee A. Daniels
Suppose they gave a Republican primary election in Arizona – and nary a word about red-meat topic of undocumented immigration was heard?

By The Editors
“Well, I don’t understand – why would he confess?

That question is at the heart of an issue that has long perplexed judges, jurors and criminal justice reformers: why innocent people being interrogated by police or prosecutors confess to a crime they did not commit.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
What has President Obama done for black folks?

By The Editors
Last month newspaper articles trumpeted a startling finding: the sharp decline in black-white residential segregation in America’s 85 largest cities.

By The Editors
It’s long been apparent that the noble sentiment engraved on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building – Equal Justice Under Law – is in far too many criminal trials in far too many courtrooms throughout the land an ideal but not a reality.

By Lee A. Daniels
The deaths of Colvin and Ochlik were shocking not because their lives were worth more than the nearly two dozen civilians and anti-Assad regime activists who died with them in the apartment building deliberately targeted by Syrian army rockets and bombs, or the scores of Syrian civilians killed elsewhere that same day by forces loyal to the murderous Assad forces.

By Lee A. Daniels
Rick Santorum, who has surged to the front of the Republican primary field, has apparently been so deranged by visions of inhabiting the White House, he’s willing to wallow in the political sewer to get there.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the first federal appellate challenge to the use of race in university admissions since the Court’s landmark 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The mind of Beverly McIver, bursting with creativity and insight, has propelled her to wide acclaim as an artist. The contrast with her older sister Renee, forever burdened by mental disability with the mind of a nine-year-old, could not be starker.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
The country is once again caught up in a wave of supposed reforms whose effectiveness their supporters take as article of faith—and nothing more—because research or equity is not on their side.