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Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor at Harvard Law School, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and host of the podcast Deep Background. His most recent book is The Arab Winter: A Tragedy.  (December 2020)

The Battle Over Scalia’s Legacy

The late justice advocated judicial restraint, textualism, and originalism, but conservative jurists will have to choose among them.

The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law

by Antonin Scalia, edited by Jeffrey S. Sutton and Edward Whelan, and with a foreword by Justice Elena Kagan

December 17, 2020 issue

Letter

The Gorsuch Deference?

January 14, 2021 issue

Anti-abortion demonstrators on the first day of the Supreme Court’s new session, Washington, D.C., October 2019

Why Precedent Won’t Protect ‘Roe’

July 2, 2020 issue

Is Trump Above the Law?

If the Senate does not remove Trump, what will that mean for his presidency, and for impeachment itself?

January 16, 2020 issue

Feature

Fintan O’Toole

Trump’s Show Trial

Republican senators are now quite openly behaving as courtiers. It is impertinent for courtiers even to go through the motions of putting the monarch on trial.

February 27, 2020 issue

Trump and the Meaning of Impeachment

President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency.

December 19, 2019 issue

Arguing Affirmative Action

An exchange

February 7, 2019 issue

Protesters at a demonstration against Harvard University’s admissions process, Copley Square, Boston, October 2018

Justifying Diversity

In the courts, diversity is being subjected to a withering attack, one that most informed observers expect to be fatal.

December 6, 2018 issue

Letter

Arguing Affirmative Action

An exchange

February 7, 2019 issue

Justice Is Not Blind

August 16, 2018 issue

Tipping the Scales

What would a conservative Supreme Court mean for the country?

July 19, 2018 issue

Letter

Justice Is Not Blind

August 16, 2018 issue

Michael Cohen

Crooked Trump?

The investigation of Michael Cohen marks the start of a new phase in the unraveling of Trump’s presidency.

May 24, 2018 issue

Alexander Hamilton;
portrait by James Sharples, circa 1796

More Rules of Impeachment

October 26, 2017 issue

Impeachment?

October 12, 2017 issue

Donald Trump

What Are Impeachable Offenses?

Are impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump warranted?

The Case for Impeachment

by Allan J. Lichtman

Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide

by Cass R. Sunstein

September 28, 2017 issue

Letter

Impeachment?

October 12, 2017 issue

Letter

More Rules of Impeachment

October 26, 2017 issue

Could FDR Have Done More for the Jews?

June 5, 2014 issue

Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Henry Morgenthau Jr., his treasury secretary, February 9, 1934. Morgenthau was the only Jewish member of Roosevelt’s cabinet, and convinced him to form the War Refugee Board in early 1944.

Could FDR Have Done More to Save the Jews?

FDR and the Jews

by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman

FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith

by Rafael Medoff

May 8, 2014 issue

Letter

Could FDR Have Done More for the Jews?

June 5, 2014 issue

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