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September 20, 2022
Smita Ghosh
Why Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia
He cites a constitutional clause that should shield him from questioning. But he has the history and the precedent wrong.
February 15, 2022
Magazine
Sam Rosenfeld
What Defines the Democratic Party?
The longest running theme in the history of the party might be charges of incoherence and disorganization.
June 1, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property
Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?
August 4, 2019
Saul Cornell
The Second-Amendment Case for Gun Control
It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.
June 6, 2019
Annie Abrams
The College Board Hopes to Profit from “Adversity”
The standardized test company says quantifying student hardship gives SAT scores context—but who is defining the frame?
May 21, 2019
Magazine
Win McCormack
Socialism in No Country
Why the revolutionary left has always been bad news for democracy
March 15, 2019
Tim Burns
Court-Packing Is Not a Threat to American Democracy. It’s Constitutional.
Congress is allowed to change the size of the Supreme Court, and it has done so seven times. The country survived just fine.
February 12, 2019
Magazine
Patrick Iber
Off the Map
How the United States reinvented empire
January 10, 2019
Magazine
Win McCormack
A Commons Problem
Public resources won't be adequately protected by those with private interests.
January 7, 2019
Magazine
John Fabian Witt
The Operative
How John Marshall built the Supreme Court around his political agenda
November 21, 2018
Magazine
Win McCormack
A Dutiful Citizen
Gary Hart's quest for a more participatory democracy
April 24, 2018
Matt Ford
When the President Defies the Supreme Court
What will Trump do if the justices rule against him?
February 16, 2018
Magazine
Win McCormack
Liberalism After Liberalism
The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure
December 22, 2017
Omer Aziz
My President Was an Islamophobe
The first year of the Donald Trump era was nothing less than a catastrophe for Muslims.
October 26, 2017
Ismail Muhammad
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Uneasy Hope
The writer's critics call him a cynic. But as a new anthology shows, his thinking has matured in subtle ways over the years.
July 17, 2017
Magazine
Win McCormack
Created Equal
How the divide between rich and poor has undermined the Constitution.
May 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s Crude, Ignorant Theory of American History
His bizarre and mistaken beliefs about the past are a window into his mind—and serve his political agenda.
March 22, 2017
Ryu Spaeth
Derek Walcott’s Dueling Legacies
When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life?
May 10, 2016
Matthew C. Simpson
Thomas Jefferson’s Double Life
A new biography explains the contradictions in a man who defended equality while owning slaves.
September 10, 2013
Tevi Troy
John Tyler’s Love of Shakespeare
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