Last month, in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Willis described having to leave her home and hire bodyguards due to ...

He did this with a bump stock, an accessory that, for all intents and purposes, transforms semi-automatic rifles into machine ...

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40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had ...

"I didn’t realize right away that I had come across a batch of land titles issued to formerly enslaved men and women." ...

"The plaintiffs have not shown—and cannot show—that FDA's actions will cause them to suffer any conscience injury.” ...

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the ...

Ya Li is a slight, soft-spoken accountant who was born in China and now lives with her husband and daughter in Australia. But ...

Nearly 160 years after the federal government created what became the nation’s first and most famous attempt to provide reparations by giving “40 acres and a mule” to formerly enslaved people in the ...

Then, earlier this year, Palm Springs said it would agree to pay some amount of reparations to the Section 14 survivors. The ...

Today, that land is home to a lavish gated community called The Landings, where nearly everyone gets around on a golf cart.