Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

It is spring in Palestine, and Eid al-Fitr has just passed. It’s customary to buy new clothes for the feast, but with people desperately short of funds, this tradition was out of reach for most this ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes. From the seventeenth century onward, an array of laws and ...

This essay appears in print in The Politics of Care. In the final chapter, “The Space Traders,” of his 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Persistence of Racism, Derrick Bell, Harvard Law ...

I had been staring at his medical records for a couple of hours, reminding myself of the details of the case. Back in 2021, I wrote a “County of Origin Expert Affidavit” for a man in Immigration and ...