Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services.
March 24, 2021The unfettered right to own and carry weapons has come to symbolize the Republican Party’s ideology of individual liberty. Lawmakers and activists have not been able to overcome Republican insistence on gun rights despite the mass shootings occurring with a greater frequency.
February 24, 2021How can we hold a president accountable?
February 24, 2021We need a fundamental debate about our flawed and archaic founding document.
January 6, 2021That each and every one of the Pentagon 10 is by his own lights a patriot, not to mention a beneficiary of white male privilege, is undoubtedly the case. That each did his level best is also no doubt the case. Yet all accepted without question an assumption that has long formed foundation of U.S. national security policy: the conviction that the possession and use of matchless military might offers the best way to ...
January 6, 2021Once you give up the principle of equality before the law, you have given up the whole game.
November 18, 2020The summer of unrest sharpens the nation’s attention to issues of racial justice.
November 18, 2020Without a practical plan for revising the Constitution, Democrats will be condemned to play by rigged rules.
November 12, 2020Originalists believe that all that the original text of the Constitution should stand, as written, in the late 18th century. Originalists often refer to jurists who take the stance that the Constitution is a living document as “activist” judges.
