Defending due process is not about shielding criminals, it is about safeguarding every individual from the arbitrary power ...

A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected ...

The controversial amendment in the federal budget bill would have required the disposal of 500,000 acres of public land.

The president has railed against South Africa’s seizures of land from white farmers. But during his first term, he pushed to ...

This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila ...

In February, Trump ordered that US financial aid be cut to South Africa for the country’s “unjust racial discrimination”. In ...

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of ...

A conservative legal group is urging the University of North Georgia to drop a policy that may punish students for addressing ...

During World War II, of course, the U.S. used the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to detain tens of thousands of people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent for no other reason than their cultural ...

You’ve heard of the U.S. Constitution, right? You can see one of the 1789 originals right there in the National Archives. At ...

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