You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History
Khairullozhori Matanov, a friend of the Boston bomber, is being sentenced under a law whose purview is growing disturbingly wide.
Jun 2, 2015 / Juliana DeVries
The Conservatives Who Gutted the Voting Rights Act Are Now Challenging ‘One Person, One Vote’ The Conservatives Who Gutted the Voting Rights Act Are Now Challenging ‘One Person, One Vote’
The newest challenge to voting rights would be a dramatic powergrab for the GOP.
May 28, 2015 / Ari Berman
It All Comes Down to Justice Kennedy It All Comes Down to Justice Kennedy
The man in the middle raised concerns about overturning millennia of tradition, but he also emphasized the dignity legal marriage confers to same-sex couples.
Apr 29, 2015 / Nan D. Hunter
SCOTUS Will Likely Legalize Same-Sex Marriage—but the Fight Over Marriage Is Not Done Yet SCOTUS Will Likely Legalize Same-Sex Marriage—but the Fight Over Marriage Is Not Done Yet
A win for LGBT advocates would be historic, but uncertainty over religious exemptions and the status of domestic partnerships and civil unions remains.
Apr 21, 2015 / Nan D. Hunter
Theocracy Versus Democracy Theocracy Versus Democracy
How the reckless Hobby Lobby decision has excited the imagination of the right wing.
Apr 3, 2015 / William Greider
Obamacare’s Latest Test: Partisan Hackery Obamacare’s Latest Test: Partisan Hackery
If only there was some way to know what the authors of the Affordable Care Act really intended.
Mar 10, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
The Sham Lawsuit That Could Eviscerate Obamacare The Sham Lawsuit That Could Eviscerate Obamacare
The lack of structural integrity in the case before the Supreme Court, along with its bleak implications, has become even more obvious in the past week.
Feb 5, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else
From criminal justice to workers’ and voting rights to campaign finance, it has defied customs that buttress the Court’s legitimacy.
Jan 28, 2015 / Nan Aron, William Yeomans, and Michelle D. Schwartz
The Twilight of the Gay-Marriage Movement The Twilight of the Gay-Marriage Movement
By this time next year, marriage equality will be the law of the land.
Jan 17, 2015 / Gabriel Arana
Antonin Scalia: Torture’s Not Torture Unless He Says It Is Antonin Scalia: Torture’s Not Torture Unless He Says It Is
The Supreme Court justice might need to brush up on his Eighth Amendment.
Jan 5, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel