Callais Affects More Than Just Congress
State supreme courts have quietly become among the most politically significant institutions in American life.
Learning From the International Struggle
Over the last twenty years, illiberal forces have coordinated ideas, personnel, and finances across international borders. Liberals can learn from this.
Tradwives, Dependas, and the Politics of Degradation
The tradwife aesthetic valorizes submission and then withholds dignity from those who submit.
"Parental Rights" Conservatives Smear Connecticut's Attempt to Prevent Child Abuse
Today’s “parental rights” absolutism is actually a departure from the country’s constitutional history and tradition.
Equal on Paper
As with "massive resistance" to Brown v. Board, Republicans today argue for a legal landscape where rights exist on paper but cannot be enforced.
"Parental Rights" and the Authoritarian Family
For advocates of "parental rights," family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.
How the Supreme Court Enabled Trump's Unilateral War on Iran
For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs.
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.