The history of juries is actually quite revolutionary.

In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular—largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.

Facebook's privacy and ad preferences settings are a privacy placebo: they trick us into feeling a little better, but they don't treat the underlying disease.

Censorship isn't just redacted text and banned words. What happens when censorship is furtive, flying under the radar as much as possible?

When Charles Lindbergh became the first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, the smiling visage of the ...

New lawsuits allege that court officials are jailing people who fall behind on payment of court fees and fines, leading to a resurgence of debtors' prisons.

Passage of the act was paved by the sacrifices of Civil Rights activists, especially those who had recently put their bodies on the line at Selma, Alabama.

A Harvard law professor argues that the laissez-faire era in the 19th century represented a blip in a long history of powerful labor regulations.

Such forms of enforced isolation are referenced as far back as the Old Testament, while the word "quarantine" itself dates to the late medieval Plague.