Duncan Hosie The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment The Supreme Court’s Republican majority has been quietly rolling back a longstanding consensus over cruel and unusual punishment. June 18, 2024
Sean Wilentz The Immunity Con For the first time in American history, the supreme judicial authority is parsing how much criminality to permit the chief executive. May 1, 2024
Catherine Coleman Flowers Life and Death in Alabama The recent struggle over IVF in my home state reveals how little value its government places in human life. March 8, 2024
Sean Wilentz A Historic Abdication If the Supreme Court decides not to rule on whether Trump should be disqualified, it could set off precisely the crisis it hopes to avoid. February 12, 2024
Duncan Hosie Bad Facts, Bad Law In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test. November 25, 2023
Sean Wilentz The Revolution Within the American Revolution Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event. October 23, 2023
Miriam Pensack The Specialist Even as he appeals a recent money-laundering conviction, Panama’s former president has been planning a political comeback. September 18, 2023
Liza Batkin Not All Men The sitcom Jury Duty exploits the controversial tactics of the prank show to make us feel good about mankind. September 5, 2023
Duncan Hosie How DeSantis Packed the Florida Supreme Court With his right-wing judicial appointments, the governor of Florida has been carrying out the mission of the Federalist Society and removing barriers to his political agenda. July 20, 2023
Peter Minowitz Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act: An Exchange “The climate of fear created by these laws makes actual enforcement unnecessary.” July 11, 2023