With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers

Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bid for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers overlooked or rejected.

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the U. S.

Māori climate risk worsened by colonization, report finds

A national climate assessment finds that exclusion from decision-making has increased Indigenous vulnerability to floods, storms, and erosion.

Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

Becerra, a front-runner for California governor, has a history of blocking police accountability and seeking to uphold the death penalty.

The Little-Known Nuclear Deal That Could Help Our Climate Crisis

A project to turn nuclear warheads into safe electricity was astonishingly successful in the post-Cold War era. Could it happen again?

No Procedure Can Manufacture a European Demos

Across federalist, fiscal and deliberative proposals, Europe’s reformers keep deferring the one question integration cannot bypass.

Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund Is a Handout to His Hardcore Supporters

Trump using his “anti-weaponization” fund to put January 6 rioters on the dole is a whole new kind of corruption.

The Myth of Zero Enrichment

Tehran regards Washington’s demand as tantamount to unconditional surrender, but there may yet be a way forward.