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July 30, 2013
Delphine Rodrik
The Seven Cruelest—and Legal—Abuses of Animals in the U.S.
July 29, 2013
Simon Lazarus
Alito Shrugged
Libertarianism has won over the Supreme Court conservatives
July 29, 2013
Robert Knowles
Israeli Lessons for Improving Guantanamo Bay
Why the U.S. military must withdraw from the detention camp
July 24, 2013
Leah Plunkett
The Real Way to Fix Law School: More Lawyers
July 23, 2013
The New Republic Staff
How to Fix Law School
Six experts tell us what they'd change
July 21, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Our Cover Model: Breaking Bad's Bob Odenkirk
June 28, 2013
Letta Tayler
Attorney-Client Privilege? Not at Gitmo
The perverse rules governing the September 11 trials
June 28, 2013
Samuel Issacharoff
So the VRA Is Gutted. Here's How to Still Fight Voter Discrimination
June 25, 2013
Nate Cohn
Unfair Voting Restrictions are a Nationwide Problem Now
Not that the Supreme Court's decision will fix this
June 24, 2013
Robert Knowles, Rachel E. VanLandingham
Affirmative, Sir! (And Ma'am!)
The U.S. military needs affirmative action now more than ever
June 13, 2013
Jeff Guo
The Supreme Court Reveals its Ignorance of Genetics
June 12, 2013
Adam Winkler
Bathrooms Are Not Separate-But-Equal
A Maine court case signals the next frontier of civil rights: transgender equality.
June 10, 2013
Robert Chesney, Benjamin Wittes
A Tale of Two NSA Leaks
One is unsurprising, and damaging. The other is worth debating.
June 10, 2013
John B. Judis
The Constitutional Amnesia of the NSA Snooping Scandal
I've seen this all before—and have an FBI file to show for it
June 6, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Show Me the Memo
Obama should share his legal justification for collecting Verizon's phone records
June 4, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
A Damning Dissent: Scalia's Smartest, Wittiest Ruling of All Time
Justice Antonin Scalia was at his finest in criticizing the Court over its approval of DNA swabs
June 3, 2013
Tim Wu
The Right to Evade Regulation
How corporations hijacked the First Amendment
May 1, 2013
Jack Goldsmith
How Obama Undermined the War on Terror
The President promised not to undercut the rule of law for expedience's sake. He did. Now we face the consequences.
April 22, 2013
Nate Cohn
The White House Was Wise Not to Declare Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an Enemy Combatant
April 10, 2013
Cass R. Sunstein
Moneyball for Judges
The statistics of judicial behavior

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