My 2017 book, The Color of Law, showed that “de facto,” accidental, neighborhood segregation is a myth; in truth, government purposely enforced it, creating racial inequality in wealth, education, employment, health, and criminal justice. Readers asked,...
Rent controls can help to make housing more affordable in cities like New York. But they must be part of a broader solution to the housing crisis that involves increasing density and building more...
After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention center in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to clear the way for the deportation of several immigrants to South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties....
The Israeli military said it had attacked six airports in western, eastern and central Iran, destroying 15 aircraft and helicopters as part of its “effort to deepen air superiority in Iranian skies.” “The strikes...
“This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says, weighing in on the conflict. Russia, an Iranian ally, has urged the U.S. not to intervene.. INTENSIFYING...
A Massachusetts federal judge has declared that cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants made by the administration of US President Donald Trump are “illegal” and “void,” and ordered that many of the...
Concerns grow that the conflict could spark a wider regional war. Israel has carried out strikes across Iran while Tehran has returned fire with missiles as the foes have traded attacks for a fifth...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will start pushing legislation that would fast-track ambitious national projects to boost Canada’s economy, now faced with Donald Trump’s tariffs. Carney outlined his plan on Monday...
The fear is that the government will continue to ignore rapidly expanding debts and deficits. Bond investors sent government borrowing costs surging Thursday after the House gave its narrow, early-morning approval to a multitrillion-dollar...