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Most people credit policing or the lack of it, but the real story tracks three trends that rose and fell together.
Jackson’s concurrence traces the 14th Amendment to work done by people ‘beyond Congress’ and Black Americans who ‘helped galvanize the push for full equality.’
Colorado watered down its AI legislation but may still face litigation from the Department of Justice.
Graham Platner’s Senate campaign has imploded amid credible accusations of rape. A Maine political scientist looks at what happened and how the populist Platner resembles Donald Trump in key ways.
Florida’s population boom has fizzled to just 0.9% growth as domestic migration slows to a trickle.
The boundaries of heterosexuality are bending for women but not for men, who appear to have less room to explore and are bound to a more rigid, traditional concept of masculinity.
Philadelphia police revoked the carry licenses of five members of the Black Lion Party for International Solidarity, citing ‘good cause.’ Is that constitutional?
How will Democrats in Congress deal with the DSA-affiliated candidates likely to join their ranks in the new year? There are lessons from the tea party’s challenge to traditional GOP values.
A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
Mail-in voting was created during the Civil War so soldiers could vote. That legacy helped shape how the Supreme Court ruled more than 160 years later.
Montesquieu shaped how Americans understood liberty, and his warning about a ‘tyranny of opinion’ speaks to today’s polarization.
New legislation in Denver created a program to build, repair and maintain sidewalks throughout the city.
A former federal judge analyzes key Supreme Court decisions this term, reflects on growing judicial invective evident in its opinions, and judiciously gives praise for some great writing.
The US Supreme Court ruled that states could exclude transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports teams.
Data center proposals are often local controversies with significant underlying principles at stake.
From a synagogue’s 5K to Appalachia’s Hillbilly Days, shared celebrations pull strangers together.
Pointing to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that all babies born in the United States ‘are citizens by birth.’
A huge amount of money flows into campaigns in the United States. For 20 years, the Supreme Court has been loosening rules for who can contribute and how much. It just loosened the rules again.
The high court’s ruling effectively endorses the unitary executive theory, greatly expanding the power of the president.
The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
Geofencing warrants, which round up the location data of everyone in a specific place at a specific time, are now legally subject to Fourth Amendment protections.
President Donald Trump’s capital redesign follows centuries of debate and discussion about how Washington should look to the world.
Two recent Supreme Court rulings suggest the high court is so pro-gun it has decided it must also be pro-drugs.
A strong deal would build in real penalties for going back to war: automatic, reversible costs that fall on anyone who restarts the fighting.