The Roberts court has become so political that it is driving itself to term limits. As FDR put it in a Fireside Chat to the nation on March 9, 1937: “We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation ...

Countless battleground races will capture attention this November, but a few remain toss-ups in the truest sense ...

With an election approaching, the US Supreme Court is being asked again to consider the Affordable Care Act, the landmark ...

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State boards use outdated laws to target content creators, raising urgent questions about free speech in the digital age.

From troubling election denialism to rampant misinformation about voter fraud, there are already multiple respects in which ...

I n June 2023 the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions at American universities. Many supporters of the practice ...

Sandra Day O'Connor was the last justice who held elective office, as a state senator in Arizona. In today's court, every justice — other than Elena Kagan — has been a federal appellate judge. Kagan ...

Ever since the Dobbs opinion leaker escaped any punishment or even exposure, many of us have worried that the precedent would encourage further leaks from the Supreme Court, especially to left-leaning ...

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion on gun rights has not eliminated the disagreement among judges in those challenges, legal ...

Most states require some sort of high school civics instruction. But with surveys showing that a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government, and one in which 10% ...