HARSH JUSTICE       in America

The Justice Department plans to phase out its use of private prisons after they were determined to be less safe and less effective that...

In a video that is attracting lots of attention on social media, a bikini-clad Tallahassee mom is seen screaming at black teens on the...

To understand precisely how Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has changed America, one need only look at a new pair of surveys. In...

Aetna threatened federal government with withdrawal from Affordable Care Act if controversial merger didn't go through, new reporting...

PHOTOGRAPH BY RYAN PFLUGER FOR THE NEW YORKER In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson...

Big private insurance companies bailing out of a government-sponsored healthcare program, complaining about financial losses. Hundreds of...

For a very long time, the idea of the House being in play was treated as a Democratic pipe dream. After all, Republicans control 247...

A video published on YouTube showing Ohio fitness company owner Josh Bowmar spear hunting a black bear in Alberta, Canada has caused a...

In March of 2011, 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez was taken into an interview room at a Jacksonville, Florida, police station and...

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 9 points — 50 percent to 41 percent — in the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking...