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Panic over supposed ‘super-predator’ teens ended years ago, but its consequences did not. jabejon/iStock via Getty Images Plus

40 years ago, the US started sending more and more kids to prison without hope of release, but today, it’s far more rare – what happened?

Research on developing brains has helped bring about a sea change in attitudes toward juvenile life without parole. But many people who committed crimes as minors are still serving such sentences.
Lucien Greaves, spokesman for the Satanic Temple, which has pushed to establish after-school clubs. Josh Reynolds for The Washington Post via Getty Images

How after-school clubs became a new battleground in the Satanic Temple’s push to preserve separation of church and state

The controversial – and often misunderstood – extracurricular groups tend to raise controversy. But under equal access laws, schools can’t discriminate against a club based on its point of view.
Being in a legal grey area means sex workers are at a disadvantage when they have been the victim of a crime or defrauded. (Shutterstock)

Halifax lawsuit shows why sex workers need legal protections

If sex workers have to pay taxes and have all the other burdens of business and employment, then surely their contracts must be honoured as well.
The handling and disposition of human bodies raises all sorts of ethical and legal questions. Jupiterimages/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Is it legal to sell human remains?

The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
Still from ‘All watched over by machines of loving grace’ by Memo Akten, 2021. Created using custom AI software. Memo Akten

Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.
Science fiction offers a glimpse of what governments of the world are – and can become. agsandrew via Getty Images

This course uses science fiction to understand politics

Science fiction does more than entertain – it can also be used to better understand the political forces that shape the societies in which we live.

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