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Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faces a tough choice: whether to put up for a vote a major criminal justice reform bill over the opposition of some hard-charging Republicans in the Senate. The ...

The promise is made with all the authority of the Constitution: Rich or poor, U.S. citizens are entitled to equal justice. But promise and practice in U.S. law can sometimes seem worlds apart. It was ...

After four years of a president who regarded the attorney general as his personal lawyer, it was vital that President-elect Joe Biden choose a head of the Justice Department whose independence and ...