AlbrightWord in Black The Supreme Court’s October 2025 session may be its most consequential yet in the long fight for Black freedom. Louisiana v. Callais, which was reargued on Oct. 15, is the latest ...

For Alyssa Thiede, the curator at Hennepin History Museum, her connection to a new exhibit about an enslaved woman freed ...

An exhibition opening at the Brick and the Geffen at LA MOCA puts decommissioned Confederate monuments in dialog with ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

For twenty years, the chief justice and his wrecking crew have toppled precedents—no wonder the Roberts Court is hemorrhaging public support.

When Jonathan Skrmetti was appointed as Tennessee's attorney general in 2022, he told Nashville's WPLN he had little media training and was a lawyer, not a politician.

We're not afraid, we're not trembling and our objective as journalists remains the same as it was in the 1990s when the first CounterPunch newsletter went to press: to question the received wisdom, ...

CHAUTAUQUA—Let’s pick up where we left off last week. Chautauqua Institution began the 2025 season with a hopeful sign that renewed enthusiasm for diversity of thought was in the air. That continued ...

According to Chaz Harris, one of the men who utilizes the center's resources, what the center offers Black men like him is ...

In a little-covered speech, the Supreme Court justice explained how he thinks the court should reverse rulings conservatives don’t like. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. In an ...

David French is an Opinion columnist, writing about law, culture, religion and armed conflict. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former constitutional litigator. His most recent book is ...

A federal appeals court ruled against President Trump on Friday, barring the administration from ending birthright citizenship. “The ‘lessons of history’ thus give us every reason to be wary of now ...