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July 23, 2015
Joseph Pomianowski
Police Have Too Much Power Over Motorists
Sandra Bland's violent arrest shows why the law must change
July 23, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The New Nuclear Family
What gay marriage means for the future of parenthood
July 10, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Your Right to Die Isn’t Enough
The ethics and morality of assisted suicide
July 6, 2015
Jeet Heer
Clarence Thomas Deserves Criticism. Just Leave His Race Out of It.
George Takei's “blackface” remark reflects a broader problem with liberal attacks on the reactionary justice
July 6, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
The Wrong Way to Stop Prostitution
Visa and MasterCard won’t work with Backpage.com anymore. That won't help sex workers.
July 2, 2015
Erwin Chemerinsky
Ted Cruz Is Right: The Supreme Court Needs Term Limits
But judicial elections are not the answer
June 30, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The Other Winner in the Supreme Court's Wild Week: Big Business
June 29, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Antonin Scalia Compared a Lifesaving EPA Regulation to a Ferrari
June 29, 2015
Andrew Koppelman
A Slightly Modest Proposal
John Roberts's claims of judicial restraint should be taken with a grain of salt
June 27, 2015
Simon Lazarus
John Roberts to America: I'm in Charge Here
June 26, 2015
Brian Beutler
Why Conservatives Should Praise God for the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Decision
June 26, 2015
Jeet Heer
Antonin Scalia Is the Supreme Court's Greatest Writer
June 25, 2015
Naomi Shavin
The Most Absurd Supreme Court Conspiracy Theory You'll Read Today
June 25, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Just How Angry Is Justice Scalia Over the Obamacare Ruling?
An emoji ranking of his most enraged quotes
June 22, 2015
Simon Lazarus
Justice Anthony Kennedy Might Use a Conservative Principle to Save Obamacare
Here are the three most likely outcomes in the Supreme Court case
June 1, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Banning Philosophical Exemptions to Vaccination While Keeping Religious Ones Makes No Sense
May 3, 2015
Suzy Khimm
"We're Going to Protect Our Community Ourselves"
Baltimore's gangs came together to protect their community. But is that all they want?
May 1, 2015
Jamil Smith
Baltimore's Prosecutor Gets It
The charges in the Freddie Gray case show that scaring cops is the best way to fight police abuse
May 1, 2015
Jon Emont
“Welcome to Indonesia, Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers!”
Why the country's new president is executing more foreigners, despite international outrage
April 29, 2015
Cristian Farias
Supreme Court Conservatives Accuse Death Penalty Opponents of “Guerrilla War”
A case about a lethal injection drug turns into a debate about capital punishment itself

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