Supreme Court
The Court’s embrace of the divine right of presidents
In the Trump v. United States oral arguments, the conservative justices sought what Justice Gorsuch called “a rule for the ages”—one that doesn’t impair the sovereign grandeur of presidential power.
The case that revolutionized libel law
Samantha Barbas’s history of New York Times v. Sullivan shows how easy it was to weaponize the law against southern civil rights leaders.
The absurdity of originalism
In Rahimi, the Supreme Court seems to have glimpsed the problems with its own Bruen decision on guns. Should we be relieved?
Fighting climate change one small act at a time
Light bulbs and solar panels won’t solve the climate crisis. They’re signs of something greater.
What kind of faith should Ketanji Brown Jackson have?
We seem to want public figures with inconsequential beliefs.
A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics
Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.
