The Trump administration was legally required to release all documents related to federal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, with only limited grounds for withholding documents and full explanations required for any redactions. It did not do this. Or anything close to it. The Justice Department released several thousand documents Friday, but top officials acknowledged […]

Open almost any conversation about wrongdoing in America, and the idea of forgiveness will not be far behind.  It’s one of our most cherished cultural ideals. We talk about it as a form of moral strength, as something good people do, as the final step in healing. Forgiveness is often framed as the path to […]

Hundreds of thousands of pages of the Justice Department’s files related to investigations of Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released Friday, and though all the files won’t be released just yet, this batch is sure to create a frenzy on social media when it drops. The Epstein scandal is an important national story, and […]

The Justice Department almost never discloses information it collected on a criminal suspect outside of a criminal judicial proceeding, and for very good reasons. Revealing such information can endanger victims or other witnesses. And it denies due process to individuals who may be innocent — and who will never receive a trial — even though […]

The world we’ve built is an unrelentingly cruel one for animals. By 2025’s end, millions of animals will have been locked in tiny cages and violently killed for their fur. Hundreds of millions will have been drugged, prodded, or sliced up in painful experiments. And close to 1 trillion animals will have been farmed for […]