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Courting Disaster

by Ian MacDougall,

Why liberals should give up on the judiciary

Private Matters

by Paul Bender,

It is often said that our Constitution is alive. As the Supreme Court reinterprets the law in different eras, our rights both grow and diminish—sometimes with glacial slowness, sometimes with…

The Fight to Choose

by Andrew Cockburn,

The politics of abortion after Roe v. Wade

One Manner of Law

by Marilynne Robinson,

The religious origins of American liberalism

The Wicked Abroad

by Charles Austin Beard,

In Henry IV, the king on his deathbed gives his son and heir the ancient advice dear to the hearts of rulers in dire straits at home: I . .…

Empire Burlesque

by Daniel Bessner,

What comes after the American Century?

Permanent Pandemic

by Justin E. H. Smith,

Will COVID controls keep controlling us?

Chew Your Own Adventure

by Jean Cocteau, Translated by Alex Wermer-Colan,

From Letter to the Americans, which was written in 1949 after a visit to New York City. It will be published for the first time in English this month by…

Operation Overshare

by James Harkin,

How the White House misled Ukraine

White Rapture

by Margo Jefferson,

From Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir, which will be published this month by Pantheon. I started teaching women writers in the early Nineties. When I thought about my own…

Sample Truths

by Christopher Beha,

One of the few clear goods to have emerged from the social and political turmoil of the past decade is a collapse of faith in public opinion polls. Last fall’s…

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