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The Forever Cure

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?

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…

Labor’s Last Stand

by Garret Keizer,

Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal

In Search of the Right to Vote

by Victoria Bassetti,

From Electoral Dysfunction, released in September by the New Press, in conjunction with a PBS documentary of the same name. The right of voting for representatives is the primary…

From questions asked on November 2 by Supreme Court justices in oral arguments, in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The case concerns a 2005 California law that prohibits the sale…

Condemnation Nation

by Joshua Kurlantzick,

The big business of eminent domain

Fighting for the Supreme Court

by Cass R. Sunstein,

How right-wing judges are transforming the Constitution

Civil obedience

by Lewis H. Lapham,

A hero to his valet

by Jeff Greenfield,

An underling spies on the Supreme Court

The triumph of expedience

by Pamela S. Karlan, Richard A. Posner,

How America lost the election to the courts

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Art by Victoria Kann,

United States Supreme Court

The Forever Cure

Private Matters

Labor’s Last Stand

In Search of the Right to Vote

Interactivist Judges

Condemnation Nation

Fighting for the Supreme Court

Civil obedience

A hero to his valet

The triumph of expedience

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The Forever Cure

Private Matters

Labor’s Last Stand

In Search of the Right to Vote

Interactivist Judges

Condemnation Nation

Fighting for the Supreme Court

Civil obedience

A hero to his valet

The triumph of expedience

Untitled

May 2001

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