These are the people who made the world worse this year—plus a few who fought the good fight.

The former president took his Avignon presidency to the courtroom in 2023. Will he win back the White House from the hot seat in 2024?

The Roberts court is getting back to what it does best: providing a safe haven for political scoundrels.

If you want to know what the post-Dobbs future looks like, look at what the state of Texas did to Kate Cox.

Favorable terrain—and friendlier courts—have been found far from Washington, D.C.

In a sign that its recent regard for restraint is prevailing, the Roberts court is signaling that it’ll take a narrow approach on mifepristone.

If history and precedent is any guide, the former president should not expect respite from the justices.

Attorney General Ken Paxton personally intervened to endanger Kate Cox’s life and preserve the Lone Star State’s post-Roe dystopia.

At Tuesday’s oral arguments, the justices seemed bent on a narrow ruling that would preserve the tax code—and not preemptively rule a wealth tax unconstitutional.

It would bring chaos. But don’t take my word for it. Ask Paul Ryan.

Let’s just say that New York lawmaker Dan Goldman has laid the weakness of the GOP’s case against Hunter Biden very, very bare.

The high court’s new guidelines have come in for a lot of criticism, but they’re the perfect platform for reformers to keep applying pressure.

The GOP’s lead inquisitor wants the president’s son to testify—as long as it’s behind closed doors.

The former president must think that voters haven’t been paying attention to what’s become a hot-button issue at the polls.

An appeals panel led by a Trump appointee is giving the Supreme Court the chance to gut one of the few major provisions remaining in the law.

A criminal case heralded as Idaho’s first “abortion trafficking” arrest turns out to be more complicated.

Judge Sarah Wallace found the case that the former president violated the Fourteenth Amendment compelling. Then she found a way to ignore her own judgment.

For years, the GOP has used imaginary threats to election integrity to impede people from lawfully voting. Goodbye to all that.

The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.

The Supreme Court’s rightward tilt has the Christian right dreaming of upending public education. But it could come at the expense of conservatives’ big ideas.