In episode 44 of Primary Concerns, Dahlia Lithwick mourns the climate of crisis and power politics engulfing the courts in the Trump era.

Jokes helped him win the presidency. They will help his opponents survive it.

He built a grassroots machine of two million supporters eager to fight for change. Then he let it die. This is the untold story of Obama’s biggest mistake—and how it paved the way for Trump.

They control the government, but their Faustian bargain with Trump has been a miserable failure thus far.

Elites have always used a climate of fear to push their own agendas.

New York’s oldest museum is safeguarding the Post-it protests against the president. But what good is history in an era that disdains it?