• Analysis: In the Supreme Court this month, abortion is the elephant in the (court)room

    Analysis: In the Supreme Court this month, abortion is the elephant in the (court)room

    Mar 19, 2018 08:09 PM EDT

    ... is not. The Roberts Court is a very strong pro-First Amendment court on speech issues. The licensed disclosure statement may present the tougher question for the justices, particularly for the strongest speech advocates: Justice Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts. They likely will be pressing lawyers on each ...

  • This poet imagines black victims of police violence 'alive someplace better'

    This poet imagines black victims of police violence 'alive someplace better'

    Feb 26, 2018 09:52 PM EDT

    ... a biting, cascade of a poem that tackles endemic violence, both physical and emotional, against black bodies. In his new collection, Smith wanted to imagine justice for the victims of “all the little and all the big violences.” He reanimates the bodies and souls of boys lost to “bonefleshed men ...

  • Erdogan's crackdown targets every aspect of Turkish society

    Erdogan's crackdown targets every aspect of Turkish society

    Aug 30, 2017 11:33 PM EDT

    ... government hospital and teaching job for -- quote -- "links to terrorist groups." OZDEMIR AKTAN: I was one of the academics who have signed the letter asking for peace. And that was considered as a support for PKK. NICK SCHIFRIN: The PKK is a Kurdish militant organization considered a terrorist group by ...

  • States step into void left by exit from Paris climate accord

    States step into void left by exit from Paris climate accord

    Jun 02, 2017 07:23 PM EDT

    ... m. Friday. In a statement Thursday, the group promised to “increase our efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create a clean energy economy, and stand for environmental justice.” Cities and states are likely to continue the trend away from coal-powered electricity and toward renewable energy despite Mr. Trump’s ...

  • Does the death penalty bring closure to a victim's family?

    Does the death penalty bring closure to a victim's family?

    Apr 25, 2017 07:02 PM EDT

    ... family. But it’s not that simple. If you ask murder victims’ families, “closure is the F-word,” said Marilyn Armour, who directs the Institute for Restorative Justice and Restorative Dialogue at the University of Texas at Austin. She’s researched homicide survivors for two decades. “They’ll tell you ...

  • Top Senate Democrat opposes Neil Gorsuch, Trump's pick for Supreme Court

    Top Senate Democrat opposes Neil Gorsuch, Trump's pick for Supreme Court

    Mar 23, 2017 03:54 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — The top Senate Democrat said Thursday he will oppose President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee and lead a filibuster of the choice, setting up a politically charged showdown with Republicans with far-reaching implications for future judicial nominees. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer criticized Judge Neil Gorsuch, saying ...

  • Finding clues of the high court’s future in Gorsuch’s record

    Finding clues of the high court’s future in Gorsuch’s record

    Feb 02, 2017 12:18 AM EDT

    Who is Judge Neil Gorsuch, the man who could shape the conservative direction of the Supreme Court for decades? Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal and Nina Totenberg of NPR join Miles O’Brien for a closer look at his record and the coming fight over his confirmation.

  • How a Seattle murderer slipped through the cracks of the mental health system

    How a Seattle murderer slipped through the cracks of the mental health system

    Apr 27, 2016 11:42 PM EDT

    In 2009, Jennifer Hopper and Teresa Butz were attacked and sexually assaulted in their home; Butz did not survive. In “While the City Slept,” Eli Sanders, a Pulitzer winner for his reporting on the case, examines the troubled life of their attacker, a mentally ill man who had repeatedly slipped through the cracks of the...

  • Baltimore braces as Freddie Gray jury wrestles with a deadlock

    Baltimore braces as Freddie Gray jury wrestles with a deadlock

    Dec 16, 2015 01:05 AM EDT

    The jury in the first trial on the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray returned after two days of deliberations to say they are deadlocked. Gray’s fatal injuries while in Baltimore police custody exposed deep cracks in the city’s criminal justice system and sparked protests. Gwen Ifill speaks to Juliet Linderman of the Associated Press about...

  • White Millennials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness

    White Millennials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness

    Mar 26, 2015 04:58 PM EDT

    What I’d like to believe from my observations in the streets of Ferguson and New York City at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests is that, among young white people, there is a real awakening around issues of racial justice. Indeed, the number of white people who have shown up, marched, carried signs,...