David Cole When Rights Went Right Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute? April 21, 2022 issue
Linda Greenhouse 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. April 7, 2022 issue
Laurence H. Tribe Politicians in Robes Why does Stephen Breyer continue to insist that the Supreme Court is apolitical? March 10, 2022 issue
Ariel Dorfman The Futility of Censorship Eric Berkowitz’s Dangerous Ideas focuses on heroes and heroines who refused to allow their freedom of expression to be extinguished. April 7, 2022 issue
David Cole The University and Freedom of Expression It is no mere academic matter if Georgetown Law succumbs to pressure to fire Ilya Shapiro over a pair of offensive tweets. February 15, 2022
Sarah A. Seo Reimagining the Public Defender For the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, the criminal justice system in the United States is essentially a plea-and-probation system. December 2, 2021 issue
Jake Bernstein Loopholes for Kleptocrats The term “tax haven” may conjure images of Caribbean islands and palm trees, but two recent books make the case that the world’s leading tax haven is America. December 2, 2021 issue
David Cole Let the Decision Stand Every argument against Roe was squarely rejected in the Supreme Court’s 1992 Casey decision, and nothing has changed since then except the composition of the Court. November 4, 2021 issue
Melissa Gira Grant Policing Womanhood For groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, the erosion of abortion rights and trans rights are complementary pathways to building a Christian nation. May 15, 2022
Elizabeth A. Reese Unsteady Ground Native people have known for a long time that in this country, rights—whether to remain, to pray, to vote, or even to live—are impermanent and fickle things, subject to revision by those in power. May 14, 2022
Catherine Coleman Flowers Our Lives in Their Hands If state governments truly cared about the lives of poor women or our children, they wouldn’t poison our water and pollute our air. They can’t be trusted with our bodies. May 13, 2022
Sherrilyn Ifill Stealing the Crown Jewels Justice Alito purports to place the future of abortion in the hands of women voters—despite abetting the disenfranchisement of Black and Latina women. May 12, 2022
Fintan O’Toole The Irish Lesson If the purpose of abortion bans is to actually reduce the rate at which women terminate pregnancies, the Irish experience shows how utterly ineffectual they are. August 18, 2022 issue
David Cole Egregiously Wrong In several of the term’s most controversial cases, the Court’s new majority applied originalism to disastrous effect. August 18, 2022 issue
Robert Kuttner Free Markets, Besieged Citizens Why did Democratic presidents embrace an economic credo that annihilated their own public philosophy and its appeal to the electorate? July 21, 2022 issue
Liza Batkin Ruling by Fear The Supreme Court’s conservative justices paint a dark portrait of society, danger lurking in every shadow, to justify overturning a New York gun control law. June 25, 2022
Duncan Hosie The Remaking of the Second Amendment The Supreme Court’s expanding interpretation of the Second Amendment threatens longstanding democratic authority to enact gun safety measures. June 10, 2022
Jed S. Rakoff The Rich Get Richer The law professor Marc Steinberg lays out a series of reasonable proposals for reforming securities law, but Congress is unlikely to act. June 23, 2022 issue
Paisley Currah What Sex Does For transgender people in the United States, the sheer number of institutions with discrete authority to define sex ensnares us in Kafkaesque contradictions. May 27, 2022
Christine Henneberg The End of Roe A symposium of writers on a future without the right to reproductive freedom. June 9, 2022 issue
Melissa Gira Grant Policing Womanhood For groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, the erosion of abortion rights and trans rights are complementary pathways to building a Christian nation. May 15, 2022
Elizabeth A. Reese Unsteady Ground Native people have known for a long time that in this country, rights—whether to remain, to pray, to vote, or even to live—are impermanent and fickle things, subject to revision by those in power. May 14, 2022
