The Communists Are All Right
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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.
Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Echoes Another President’s Shameful Plot
The president’s executive order directing USPS to suppress mail voting has often been called “unprecedented.” That isn’t quite right.
What Meeting Gloria Showed Me
It was a brief interaction. It said a lot.
Dear (Juris)Prudence: Who Cooks Up the Supreme Court’s BS Originalist Ideas, Anyway?
Clarence Thomas is the worst offender here.
Let’s Abolish the Senate!
The one radical idea that Jonathan Chait and the Democratic Socialists of America agree on.
Slavery Outlived the Civil War. How It Actually Ended Will Surprise You.
Turner was one of many Black parents whose demands for their children’s freedom defined the scope of the 13th Amendment’s…
Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of civil rights martyrs. All of them were devastated by the…
Lindsey Graham’s Sister Replaced Him. If History’s Any Guide, We Know Exactly What Type of Senator She’ll Be.
Darline Graham has been described as largely apolitical. Hmm.
The Supreme Court’s Biggest Case of the Term Shows Popular Constitutionalism in Action
The birthright citizenship case the Supreme Court just decided demonstrates how deep-rooted this practice is.