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September 22, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok
Kagan warned the court was allowing “what our own precedent bars.”
September 16, 2025
Magazine
Malcolm Ferguson
The EPA Employees Who Took a Stand Against Trump’s Devastation
More than a hundred employees of the Environmental Protection Agency put their careers at risk with the “Declaration of Dissent” they signed in June.
August 27, 2025
Edith Olmsted
FEMA Suspends Scores of Employees Who Criticized Trump
The agency pulled a page from Trump’s authoritarian playbook.
June 18, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Sotomayor Slams SCOTUS for Logic-less Ruling on Gender-Affirming Care
Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the high court of abandoning “meaningful judicial review” by upholding Tennessee’s ban.
April 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Ketanji Brown Jackson Torches Supreme Court Shadow Docket in Dissent
The justice wrote a scathing dissenting opinion in the court’s latest decision to back Donald Trump.
March 31, 2025
Edith Olmsted
MAGA’s Mad at JD Vance for Group Chat—But Not for the Reason You Think
JD Vance is catching heat for his actions in the Signal group chat.
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court Ruling That “Wreaks Havoc”
The Supreme Court justice ripped her conservative colleagues’ “flawed” decision to kneecap the federal government.
June 24, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices Rip Their “Aggressive” Conservative Colleagues
In their scathing dissent, the court’s minority write that their fellow justices have abandoned any claim to legitimacy.
February 17, 2022
Matt Ford
Will Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Be the Next Great Dissenter?
The high court’s next justice won’t be on the winning side of many major cases. But even in defeat, she might sow the seeds for future victories.
February 10, 2017
Corey Robin
There Are No Good Reasons Not To Fight
We would do well to remember the costs of keeping quiet.
February 9, 2017
Corey Robin
What’s in it For The Collaborators?
The U.S. government has enlisted powerful informants in the past without difficulty. Here's why.
February 8, 2017
Corey Robin
Who Benefits From Trump’s Chaos?
Elites have always used a climate of fear to push their own agendas.
June 4, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
A Damning Dissent: Scalia's Smartest, Wittiest Ruling of All Time
Justice Antonin Scalia was at his finest in criticizing the Court over its approval of DNA swabs
April 10, 2013
Marc Tracy
The Dean of "Dissent"
Michael Walzer on drones, democracy, and his retirement
June 22, 2010
Franklin Foer
The In-House Critics: Keeping TNR Honest
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