News & Commentary

The City of St. Louis Board of Alders passed Board Bill 185 with a final passage vote of 13-2. Board Bill 185 promotes greater transparency, oversight, and community input in decisions about if and how the police and other city agencies use surveillance technologies.

Read our Q&A with Scout Katovich, staff attorney at the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, on the stakes of Grants Pass v. Johnson.

The court has declined to hear new challenges to admissions policies, leaving the door open for institutions to continue creative solutions for expanding opportunity.

Companies and legislators are using misleading test scores to justify the expansion of facial recognition into our communities. That flawed approach understates the threat this dangerous technology poses to civil rights.

Cruelty is not a policy solution, nor is it leadership. In their words and actions, the governors of our states seek to score political points by sowing death and suffering at the border.

Elected representatives are accountable to their constituents and if they are not able to accept criticism from those they represent, they are in the wrong job.

The executions of 24 people last year illustrated the full range of systemic flaws in our system of capital punishment.

School districts continue to invest millions in law enforcement, despite clear evidence of harm to students.

Digital attacks are on the rise ­— but you can help defend your community.