Baseball's Awkward Attempt at Making Amends for Its History of Segregation
Is Josh Gibson the best hitter in major league history? Sadly, we'll never know, no matter what the record books say.
Racial Justice
Josie Duffy Rice Investigates Gruesome State Violence at an Alabama 'Reform School'
Her podcast Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children delves into abuse at a state-run institution.
Does Diversity Training Work? Does Anyone Know?
A Princeton phsychologist suggests there is little evidence that corporate DEI programs do much to enhance diversity or inclusion.
The Student Loan Debate Shows How the ACLU Has Lost Its Way
The venerable champion of civil liberties is increasingly indistinguishable from myriad progressive advocacy groups.
Sunstein Challenges Originalists on Bolling v. Sharpe (Updated)
If the Supreme Court was correct in Dobbs, was it wrong in Bolling?
Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism
The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.
Fairfax County School Board To Appeal Ruling Against Racial Balancing Efforts
The school board is fighting a federal judge’s ruling against a new admissions policy at Virginia's elite Thomas Jefferson High School.
The ACLU's Push To 'Cancel' Student Debt Shows How Far It Has Strayed From Defending Civil Liberties
The organization's embrace of a wide-ranging progressive agenda undermines its reason for existing.
Florida Anti-Riot Law 'Violates the First Amendment,' Says Court in Scathing Rebuke of Gov. Ron DeSantis
The law's "vagueness permits those in power to weaponize its enforcement against any group who wishes to express any message that the government disapproves of," Judge Mark Eaton Walker warns.
Oregon Weighs Race-Based Vaccine Preferences
Instead of allowing people with chronic medical conditions to get a higher place in line, a pivotal Oregon committee leans into racial justice considerations.
Would the ACLU Still Defend Nazis' Right To March in Skokie?
Former Executive Director Ira Glasser discusses the past, present, and increasingly shaky future of free speech.
The Economy, Racial Inequality, and COVID-19 Topped Voter Minds
It's the world of the present, not the controversies of the past, that motivated voters.
D.C. Sex Workers Want Decriminalization—and City Council Members Agree
'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
PharmaCann Challenges "Racial Quotas" for Ohio Medical Marijuana Licenses
A company that wants to cultivate marijuana in Ohio alleges the state's licensing rules are unconstitutional
The Seen and the Catastrophic Unseen in Our Criminal Justice System
Remarks delivered by Radley Balko, Bastiat Award co-winner and unflinching witness, at last week's Reason Media Awards ceremony
Anti-Fascists 'Very Proud' of White Nationalist Counter-Protest That Led to Multiple Stabbing Victims
"Beat the fascists. Beat them."
Could Trump Lead a Movement for White Racial Quotas One Day?
India's upper-caste quota wars suggest that racial quotas for whites are not so far fetched
Everything You Need to Know About Hillary Clinton's "Black Lives Matter" Problem in 10 Minutes
Leading Democratic presidential contender sloughs off complicity in mass incarceration, tells protesters they need to figure things out.
Former CBC Chair Who Voted For 1994 Crime Bill Tries to Cover Up His Role
Kweisi Mfume had boasted the CBC put its 'stamp' on the bill, the largest crime bill in U.S. history, which provided new cops and prisons.
No Indictment From Ferguson Grand Jury. Police Officer Darren Wilson Won't Face Trial for Killing Michael Brown.
A decision that's likely to leave many people unsatisfied.
