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A professor of constitutional law asks: Is it time to consider ignoring the Supreme Court?
Starting a difficult conversation.
Just ignore SCOTUS? The notion is not as radical as it sounds
Even after Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed, we’re still going to have the same rogue court. We’re running out of time and options.
How can the UK take pride in fighting Nazis in World War II while arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine? It just doesn’t square
An explosive new development unearthed by Declassified UK.
Accountability to others is the price of freedom for ourselves. But too many Americans want democracy on the cheap
Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr and Audre Lorde knew that shared problems demand shared responsibility.
The myth of the US funding secret biolabs in Ukraine is an old Russian disinfo campaign. Rightwing dupes are falling for it
The latest smear of a US program to help former Soviet republics.
We are now seeing the restored promise of good governance
Few appreciate the significance of executive branch agencies in our government, how badly former President Trump damaged them.
Ginni Thomas is above the law
When elites are untouchable, democracy isn’t all that.
Democrats should make it clear to the public that voting against green energy is voting for an authoritarian imperialist
Fretting about the price of gas is short-term thinking.
Censored Chinese scholar: ‘new Iron Curtain’ will mark ‘life-and-death battle between those for and against western democracy.’
Will China turn its back on Russia?
Texas says gender-affirming care is child abuse. It’s the latest in a history of states weaponizing child protective services
If it isn’t gender-affirming care, it’s something else.a