With their decision Thursday, the justices offered a strong rebuke of the Trump administration's proposal to add a citizenship question to the census—but gave the administration the option of coming up with a better excuse.

The conservative justices signaled they want to limit agencies' ability to regulate. That could have disastrous consequences for the planet.

The Supreme Court justice had no patience for a legal challenge to a huge Christian cross maintained with taxpayer dollars.

Trump's government is littered with "acting" department heads. Here's how he gets away with it, and how to stop it.

The Justice Department has never prosecuted a president after he leaves office. Kamala Harris wants to change that. What could go wrong?

Michael Fox had no choice but to give Scott Wharton life without parole—then spent years fighting to set him free. This is a real-life parable about our broken criminal justice system.

An interview with J. T. Smith, who was there when the Justice Department concluded that a sitting president can't be indicted

What can Democrats do to claw back some of the powers that Congress has ceded to the president?

New York could become the first state to decriminalize prostitution. TNR got an exclusive first look at the new bill.

American journalists have strong constitutional protections, but even the U.S. is part of a global trend among autocracies and democracies alike.

Pete Buttigieg's plan is constitutionally dubious and would enshrine the very problem it seeks to eradicate. Here's a different solution.

Missouri is poised to lose its last abortion provider, increasing the large swath of the country where the nearest clinic is impossibly far for poor and rural women.

Robert Mueller extinguished any hope of further revelations from the Trump investigation—and put Congress on the spot.

The Supreme Court might buy the president's twisted legal theories, but the lower courts see more clearly.

Democrats could fund their ambitious policies if the agency enforced tax laws fairly, rather than targeting the poor more than the rich.

While Washington debates Trump's legal maneuvers, his administration is committing acts of cruelty that dwarf impeachable offenses.

Passing a federal law to enshrine Roe v. Wade would require control of the White House and Congress—and approval from the Supreme Court.

If America is becoming a monarchy, it's not Trump who's king.

The prosecution of the Patriots owner, and his recent legal victories, reveal deep flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Not yet, anyway. And American democracy faces a bigger problem than Trump's abuses of power.