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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney Alec Karakatsanis about his book, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System.

In the Caribbean island of Barbuda, land is not bought or sold. Put up a fence and the land is yours forever, for free — if you're Barbudan. But now there is a plan to start selling it.

Barnes & Noble suspended its campaign to reissue classic books with covers depicting protagonists as people of color after many authors, including McKinney, criticized the initiative.

A former job placement counselor at Connections Community Support gets a year in federal prison for wire fraud.William Brown was sentenced on January 29th…

The Department of Homeland Security says the state's "Green Light" law allowing licenses for immigrants without legal status interferes with security. State officials call it "political retaliation."

A smartphone app designed to make reporting Iowa caucus results easier and faster did neither. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Betsy Cooper of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub about it.

Iowa Democratic Party officials said a new smartphone app designed to speed the results actually ended up delaying them. Last month, NPR reported on security and other concerns with the app.

The Iowa caucuses ended in confusion on Monday night. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Holly Christine Brown, the Asian/Pacific Islander Caucus Chair for the Iowa Democratic Party.

The historian Marcia Chatelain's new book, Franchise, outlines a forgotten history of McDonald's as a site of social protest and a mechanism black entrepreneurs hoped might spur black liberation.

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, President Trump is the overwhelming factor determining not just Democratic voters' choices but which direction voters will go in the general election.