Linda Greenhouse | The New York Review of Books

Why Aren’t Cops Held to Account?

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts

by Stephen B. Bright and James Kwak, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

by Joanna Schwartz

September 21, 2023 issue

Not How He Wanted to Be Remembered

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

by Martin J. Siegel

June 22, 2023 issue

Letter

Ronald Radosh

Judge Kaufman, the Times & the ACLU

September 21, 2023 issue

Victimhood and Vengeance

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

by Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, with a foreword by Jemar Tisby

Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

by David A. Hollinger

This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism

by David Sehat

February 9, 2023 issue

A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent

Stephen Breyer’s dissent in the Supreme Court's Parents Involved case has proved prophetic about the decision's consequences for racial integration in public schools.

Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools

by Stephen Breyer, with an introduction by Thiru Vignarajah

October 6, 2022 issue

Should We Reform the Court?

A recent report commissioned by President Biden lets the public in on the fact that the legal academy is close to giving up on the Supreme Court.

Final Report

by the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

April 7, 2022 issue

Grievance Conservatives Are Here to Stay

What accounts for the paradox of religious ascendance over an ever more secular American society?

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

by Katherine Stewart

Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?: The Unnecessary Conflict

by Andrew Koppelman

July 1, 2021 issue

Letter

Andrew Koppelman

Halfway to the Right

October 7, 2021 issue

The Supreme Court We Need

November 5, 2020 issue

The First and Last of Her Kind

Evan Thomas’s ‘First: Sandra Day O’Connor’

First: Sandra Day O’Connor

by Evan Thomas

November 7, 2019 issue

The Impeachment Question

Although the risks of launching a failed impeachment are obvious, there are clear benefits as well.

The Mueller Report

with an introduction and analysis by Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky

Impeachment: A Handbook

by Charles L. Black Jr. and Philip Bobbitt

The Case for Impeaching Trump

by Elizabeth Holtzman

To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment

by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz

The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents

by Corey Brettschneider

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June 27, 2019 issue

Wrongfully Convicted

Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

edited by Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger, with an introduction by Scott Turow and Barry Scheck

Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

by Mark Godsey

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, with a foreword by John Grisham

He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

by S. Jonathan Bass

June 28, 2018 issue

Who Killed the ERA?

Was the amendment the cause of polarization or its victim? Or did it turn out to be something else: a catalyst for positive change?

Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics

by Marjorie J. Spruill

October 12, 2017 issue

How Smart Women Got the Chance

Nancy Weiss Malkiel’s “Keep the Damned Women Out”

“Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation

by Nancy Weiss Malkiel

April 6, 2017 issue

The Bittersweet Victories of Women

Litigation is not for the fainthearted

Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work

by Gillian Thomas

May 26, 2016 issue