The Best Articles in Justice
The most useful articles in Justice from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Justice Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Justice by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
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SLAPP Suits: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
After winning a legal battle involving a coal executive and a giant squirrel, John Oliver explains how SLAPP suits are designed to stifle public dissent. Con...
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How to make sure racial justice is part of climate activism
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The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.
‘Hello From Sunny Moscow’: My Year of Letters with Evan Gershkovich
The WSJ journalist has been in a Russian jail much longer than we thought. How much longer before Putin lets him go?
Lessons Learned From Britney Spears’ Financial Conservatorship
The pop star’s recent memoir reveals the toll her involuntary conservatorship took on her and spotlights the drawbacks of these legal arrangements.
Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling
Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software.
Browser in the middle: 25 years after the MSFT antitrust trial
In May 1998 the US Department of Justice and the Attorneys General of 20 states along with the District of Columbia sued Microsoft in federal court, alleging predatory strategies and anticompetitiv…
Short Articles
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How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case
Lawrence Livermore's Forensic Science Center played a crucial role in helping to solve a notorious 1990s murder case.
The messy legal drama impacting the Bravo universe, explained
Reality stars are suing Bravo (and each other) while wrestling with their own reality.
Fraud abounds — meet the three kinds of people stealing your money
When we think of someone who commits fraud, we think of people like Bernie Madoff or companies like Enron: intentional perpetrators of financial crimes. But other kinds of people commit fraud, too.…
What Centuries of Common Law Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most anticipated cases of the year for the future of regulating tech platforms. While much of the debate will focus on whether the platforms…
Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats
“I am going to get to the bottom of who is responsible.”
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Justice.
Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk
The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.
«Haiti’s Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier to televise his wife’s lavish “May Ball” across the island, a decision he surely regretted when riots broke out. »
Democracy in the Real World
Theories of justice map what a good society should look like, but they generally offer few details about how to get there.
Merchant of Death: The case of Kenneth Law and the shadowy online network that helps people end…
After Kenneth Law lost his job as a low-level cook at the Royal York hotel, he found another way to make money: peddling suicide kits on the internet. Now, he’s been linked to the deaths of over 100…
Today's Supreme Court is a threat to democracy — but activists plan to fight back
After Dobbs, many Americans woke up to the Roberts court's dangerous power. But history offers lessons — and hope
Theories of Justice
Is decolonization, in its present guises, really so progressive? One of the most ambitious counterarguments is presented by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò in his provocative new book, “Against Decolonisation.”
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