Sugarcane farmers can’t survive without large crop loans. For the Provosts, who say they suffered decades of discrimination, this could be the end of the line. By Debbie Weingarten, with pictures by Audra Mulkern. (Oct. 30, 2018)

One of the former attorney general’s final acts was to make it nearly impossible for federal civil rights lawyers to rein in police abuse. By Ryan J. Reilly.

Georgia, Texas cases show states whistling past voting security graveyard. By Sean Gallagher.

Louisiana voters on Tuesday decided that unanimous jury verdicts should be required in order to convict someone of a felony for crimes that take place after 2018. By Aris Folley.

His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run, says Rebecca Solnit

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. By Ian MacDougall.

A pair of high-profile convictions implicate Donald Trump—but also serve as a reminder that only some people pay the consequences for systemic corruption in America. By Adam Serwer.

Free of that pesky Voting Rights Act, Republicans are closing down every polling site they can to stop the blue wave. It won't be enough. By Justin Rosario.

Thom Hartmann with Greg Palast

The unions — all except one — argued that Bob McCulloch’s longtime support of organized labor deserved loyalty. By Aída Chávez, Ryan Grim.

An internal report found that Miami-area police commanders in Biscayne Park, Florida, pressured officers to make false arrests to look good for leaders. Former brass deny the allegations, which resulted in the indictment of the former chief. By Charles Rabin, Jay Weaver, David Ovalle.

In 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.

It should be torn down like the Confederate monuments. By Charles P. Pierce.

Despite pervasive racism and the weight of the Great Depression, Bessie Stringfield found freedom on the open road. By Giselle Defares.

In the lead-up to this year's legislative session in Mississippi, supporters of a tougher gang law in the state talked a lot about the need to arrest white people. But in an ironic twist, the Jackson Free Press has learned that everyone arrested under the existing gang law from 2010 through 2017 were African American. By Donna Ladd.

Computers could be the key to resolving partisan fights over congressional boundaries. By Eric Boehm.

Sonia Gonzalez-Martinez

Thomas Farr will get a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. By Ari Berman.

Newly released email data shows two Republican not-yet-members potentially influencing a controversial letter — even as a Democratic member claims he was largely excluded from the process. By Jessica Huseman.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suggested that it might be the most important case of the upcoming term. On October 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Gill v. Whitford... By Amy Howe.