Getting convicted of a “minor offense” inflicts serious, long-term harm. The state can and must divert more people to counseling, group meetings, or other interventions.

It’s time for congressional Republicans to listen.

The U.S. representative has been a chief architect of mass incarceration in the state and an instigator of racial injustice.

The Office of the Comptroller of Currency is responsible for ensuring the safety, soundness, and broad accessibility of financial institutions. President Biden must choose someone to lead the agency who brings expertise and relevant lived experience to the job.

The intense backlash to his recent comments criticizing $2,000 stimulus checks signal the growing momentum for guaranteed income programs—and the emerging power of voters who care more about substantive results than partisan skirmishes.

The percentage of people held pretrial for six months or longer is up six percent from January of last year, according to a UCLA School of Law report.

The California Supreme Court Justice is motivated not by politics but by making equal justice under the law a reality for all Californians.

Americans largely support progressive policies—despite objections from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Now is the time to pass them.

By appointing a reformer to replace the outgoing Xavier Becerra, Newsom has the chance to begin dismantling a sprawling, bloated system of prisons and jails that incarcerated nearly a quarter-million people as of 2018.

The historical connections were on full display during Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible for us to ignore this any longer.

It’s time for political leaders, no matter their party, to listen to voters—and provide financial relief from the pandemic.

Decades of exploitation, abuse, and racism in medicine have cost many Black Americans their lives during the pandemic. Now the government can act to prevent further harm.

By winning a narrow majority in the upper chamber, Democrats could at last stop the Republican assault on voting rights—if its centrist members have the courage to do so.

In the new year, every prosecutor’s office should commit to protecting victims and workers, holding police accountable, and keeping families together.

The city says COVID-19 budget constraints will set back its plans to close the jail but people incarcerated there are suffering from the disease right now.

As a staff member of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, I fight for all children, especially those impacted by systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

A reasonable society does not meet trauma with more trauma in the name of justice.

The Court’s willingness to infer discrimination against Judeo-Christian religions from poorly articulated remarks that accompanied a public health response to COVID-19 may make other laws and policies vulnerable to claims of religious discrimination as well.

The coronavirus has ripped through our prison and jail populations, infecting and killing hundreds of thousands of people most vulnerable to COVID-19.

A concerted effort to review, resentence, and release is the right thing to do for those who have been unjustly sentenced. It is also the right thing to do for our community.

The CDC must immediately extend its emergency eviction moratorium to give the Biden administration and Congress time to provide additional emergency rental assistance.

After decades of harm, wrought by the war on drugs, the federal government has finally listened to the American people by voting to decriminalize marijuana.