The Supreme Court hands down a rare victory for a death row inmate
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Richard Glossip, a man sentenced to die under extraordinarily dubious circumstances, must receive ...
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The Logoff: A major blow to police reform
The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take ...
Biden’s last-minute preemptive pardons, explained
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today.On Monday, just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden ...
The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump ...
2024 cemented the tough-on-crime comeback
The spike in crime rates prompted by the pandemic in 2020 cemented the backlash to progressive criminal justice reform. In ...
How the US made progress against gun violence in 2024
If you follow the news about gun violence in America, you know that there’s a lot to be pessimistic about. ...
The long decline of the American death penalty, explained
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates on Monday, meaning that 37 men who ...
The danger of Trump’s promise to pardon J6 defendants
President-elect Donald Trump has been talking for years about pardoning the people who took part in the January 6, 2021, ...
The president’s pardon power is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to reform it for good.
On Thursday, the White House announced that President Joe Biden is commuting sentences for roughly 1,500 people who had been ...
How UnitedHealthcare became the face of a broken health care system
On Monday, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested Luigi Mangione in connection with last week’s shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ...
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