Huey Long was a populist who championed the little guy over big business, but his attempt to muzzle the press empowered the very corporate interests he inveighed against. By Adam Winkler.

In a bipartisan 388 to 25 vote, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Tuesday to make it easier for states to prosecute websites that facilitate prostitution and sex trafficking—including trafficking of underage girls. But critics say that the legislation, known as the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), could undermine a key legal protection for free speech online.

A House committee voted Tuesday to pass a resolution that would allow members to pay for bulletproof vests and security personnel using taxpayer funds.

The conservative justices seem prepared to decide Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a case that could harm public sector unions, without so much as a factual record.

A Supreme Court case on public-sector unions is a reminder of why it matters how Justice Neil Gorsuch landed on the court.

Americans' reliance on household debt ─ and poor people's struggles to pay it off ─ has fueled a collection industry that forces many of them into jail, a practice that critics call a misuse of the criminal justice system. The accusation is documented in a report by The American Civil Liberties Union, which spent more than a year investigating collection methods across the country, saying it found more than 1,000 cases in 26 states in which judges, acting on the request of a collection company, issued arrest warrants for people they claimed owed money for ordinary debts, such as student loans, medical expenses, unpaid rent and utility bills.

With new evidence that he lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to take the idea seriously.

A coalition that includes a Latino membership organization and a former Massachusetts governor filed lawsuits on Wednesday challenging how four U.S. states allocate their Electoral College votes in presidential elections.

Bigfoot has been spotted hundreds of times over the years. It usually turns out to be some dude in a gorilla costume, or a bear. But occasionally, just occ

Pennsylvania's congressional map has long been aggressively gerrymandered, silencing Democratic voters. These are the experts who helped change that for good.

Europe's highest court looks set to rule against what environmentalists see as an attack by Poland's nationalist government on the continent's oldest forest. By Ruby Russell.

It’s time to re-examine the evidence that he not only committed serial sexual harassment, but lied about it. By Jill Abramson.

As special counsel Robert Mueller builds his case, relatives of former national security adviser Michael Flynn are among those pressing the president to use his unique legal power and "put these defendants out of their misery."

Senators of both parties on Thursday moved forward their long-odds legislation to enact some degree of reform for the federal criminal justice system. By a vote of 16-5, and amid protests from some senators that the bill would likely face hurdles too high to pass, the Senate Judiciary Committee backed the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act...

Ramona Morales, 79, filed a class-action lawsuit attacking privatized prosecutions in the eastern Coachella Valley.

The EPA spokesman said anyone seeking additional details about Pruitt’s travels would have to formally request them under FOIA.

From the elevated 7-train, millions of people passing through Long Island City, Queens, could spot the massive warehouses....Virtually overnight, nearly all of it was destroyed.

Enter war, stage right.

She was high on religion, no charges filed for that though.

A 2017 Global Drug Survey (GDS) covering hundreds of thousands of people around the world has ranked recreational drugs from the safest to the most dangerous, based on how many hospital admissions they lead to.