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Republican Governors Shipping Migrants Around the Country Is a Disturbing Attack on the Constitution
By Heidi Li Feldman
The Letitia James Lawsuit May Finally Nail Trump
By Barbara McQuade
The Hypocrisy of Opposing Student Loan Relief
By William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
The Inside History of How Guns Are Marketed and Sold in America
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Is Joe Biden Really Another Jimmy Carter?
Historians and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter
By Olivia B. Waxman
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What Is the Espionage Act?
Documents reveal that the FBI is investigating whether former President Trump violated the Espionage Act of 1917. Here's what to know
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 15, 2022
What Watergate Experts Think About the Jan. 6 Hearings
And how the two moments compare
By Olivia B. Waxman
July 20, 2022
The Supreme Court Is Dooming America to Repeat History
Those who do not learn from history, George Santayana famously wrote, are doomed to repeat it. But today’s Supreme Court majority seems to have a different idea of the lessons of the past. Increasingly, they...
By Kermit Roosevelt III
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The Legal Trick That Could Undermine the 2024 Election—If the Supreme Court Doesn't Shut It Down
The results of a case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear in its next term could seriously undermine the 2024 election
By Vikram D. Amar
June 30, 2022
What the Supreme Court Loses With Justice Breyer's Retirement
During the quarter-century year career on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer constantly cultivated two judicial virtues now increasingly absent from the federal bench. The first is a careful, empirical cast of mind, constantly alive...
By Aziz Huq
June 30, 2022
Why Liberal Justices Need to Start Thinking Like Conservatives
America has experienced nothing less than a constitutional earthquake, a jolt caused by deep shifts in the tectonic plates of jurisprudence
By Akhil Reed Amar
June 30, 2022
Why the World Should Be Concerned by the Marcos Victory
Authoritarians around the world have watched the Philippine election with interest and been given a powerful lesson
By Jonathan Corpus Ong
May 10, 2022
If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, Our Clinic Will Stop Providing Abortions Immediately. But We Won't Shut Down
Today, like most weekday mornings, there will be about a dozen women at various points in early pregnancy patiently waiting for their appointments at West Alabama Women’s Center, where we work. Some of them will...
By Leah Torres and Robin Marty
May 3, 2022
3 Myths About JFK
Nearly 60 years after his assassination, myths about John F. Kennedy's time in office persist. The author of a new book on JFK debunks three of the most common
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 26, 2022
'Keep Listening to My Voice.' What It's Like to Be an Abortion Clinic Escort
"You cannot block the car,” I told the bodies amassed in front of the cab. “That is against the law!” “We don’t have to listen to you!” a man yelled back as he elbowed past...
By Lauren Rankin
April 5, 2022
Joe Biden's Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson Wasn't Just About Delivering on a Campaign Promise
Well before he was the Democratic nominee for President, Joe Biden pledged that if given the chance, he’d nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The announcement that he’d consider both race and...
By Kate Shaw
March 18, 2022
Black Politicians Elected in the South After the Civil War
At least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting in 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law limiting the number of drop boxes for...
By Olivia B. Waxman and Video by Arpita Aneja
February 7, 2022
Existing Federal Laws Could Protect Abortion Rights Even if Roe Is Overturned
On this year’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade, many wondered if it would be the last. Ever since the Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in December, legal scholars have...
By Greer Donley , Rachel Rebouché and David S. Cohen
January 24, 2022
A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms
The last 100-plus days of a ban on most abortions after six weeks in Texas have made painfully clear the future anti-abortion extremists want, not just in Texas, but across the country. And now a...
By Alexis McGill Johnson and Anthony D. Romero
December 16, 2021
There Is No Way I Could Have Gone to an Office 4 Weeks After Having a Baby
I was 13 weeks pregnant with my first child when I first felt the sharp, tearing pain in my groin. I didn’t know it then, but my pubic symphysis—the tiny joint holding together the bones...
By Katie Gutierrez
November 5, 2021
How to Pass Voting Rights With Abolishing the Filibuster
The Senate just needs to pass a simple rule change.
By Kate Shaw
November 5, 2021
Criminal Contempt Is the Appropriate Solution for Dealing With Steve Bannon
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon earned that distinction when he refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to provide testimony to a select committee...
By Chuck Rosenberg
October 29, 2021
What We Fear in the Wake of the Texas Abortion Law
On Sept. 1, Texas enacted an extreme law that effectively ended abortion care in the state. Since then, clinics in states on the western and northern borders have seen a dramatic increase in patient visits...
By Robin Marty and Leah Torres
September 28, 2021
My Father Was a Vocal Critic of Nicaragua's President. Now He's a Political Prisoner
My father, Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa, turned 77 this month. Normally, my entire family would gather somewhere in the States to celebrate his birthday with a late-summer cookout, a sheet cake and ice cream. This year, though,...
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
September 21, 2021
Why Must Women Wait for the Supreme Court to Decide What We Can Do With Our Bodies?
I knew what abortion was even before I knew how babies were made. As a child in the hot brick Baptist churches of Texas, I was told that there were women who threw babies in...
By Lyz Lenz
June 24, 2021
Michael Flynn's Attack on Democracy
Five years ago, would you have imagined that a retired three-star general would be calling for a coup in America at a convention of conspiracy theorists in Texas? This weekend, former Trump National Security Adviser,...
By Chrissy Houlahan and Jason Crow
June 2, 2021
The Surprising Political History of the Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment
Discussion of the ERA often focuses on the way the New Right stopped ratification by the states in the 1970s. But earlier opposition to the proposed amendment involved a bipartisan and ideologically diverse coalition in Congress
By Rebecca de Wolf / History News Network
May 12, 2021
The Story Behind the Declaration of Independence's Most Memorable Line
How newspapers and written constitutions brought us "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
By Akhil Reed Amar
May 7, 2021
What We Can Learn From the U.K.'s Mid-Pandemic 1918 Election
The U.K. general election of 1918 was a ‘cynical muddle’ held as influenza killed thousands across a country emerging from World War I
By Peter Keeling / History Today
May 5, 2021
Why America's Kids Need Free Camp This Summer
In the last week, as a board member for the Los Angeles Unified School District, I’ve seen students return to school campuses after more than a year of distance learning. As a leader for a...
By Nick Melvoin
May 1, 2021
The U.S. Must Prioritize Raif Badawi's Case
For years, successive U.S. administrations have given Saudi Arabia a free pass to harass, arrest and even execute those who do not accept the government’s official interpretation of Hanbali Sunni Islam. One such case is...
By Gayle Manchin and Nadine Maenza
April 28, 2021
What the 'America First Caucus' Gets Wrong on Anglo-Saxon History
"Everything's sort of layered on a false understanding of history"
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 21, 2021
Why Congress Should Legalize Marijuana
On his final day in office Donald Trump, who I never agreed with, did something I completely agree with: he commuted the sentence of a man who was serving a life sentence for possessing marijuana....
By Chelsea Handler
April 19, 2021
Joe Biden Should Become the Service President
In times of crisis, America’s leaders have historically relied on national service to recover and rebuild. During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps mobilizing millions of unemployed Americans. After 9/11, President...
By Stanley McChrystal
March 24, 2021
Biden Must Withdraw From Afghanistan by May 1
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s impromptu visit to Kabul over the weekend where he claimed the United States seeks a “responsible end” to the war followed Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s letter to Afghan President...
By Trita Parsi and Adam Weinstein
March 23, 2021
What Democrats Must Do for Black Voters
Black communities have a long history of fighting to make America real. Daring to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to secure our right to vote, taking to the streets to defend our...
By Alicia Garza
March 22, 2021
Why Germany’s Political Future Looks Increasingly Shaky as Angela Merkel Prepares to Leave
On Sept. 26, Germany's year of political change will culminate with the election of a new Chancellor, an event that will close the remarkable 16-year tenure of Angela Merkel. For Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU),...
By Ian Bremmer
March 18, 2021
How to Protect Voting Rights in the U.S.
On Jan. 6, 2021, millions watched, horrified, as agitators hellbent on overturning the election results and disenfranchising Black and Brown voters staged an insurrection on the Capitol, fueled by demonstrably false allegations of voter fraud....
By Ronald Newman
February 22, 2021
How Long Can Mexico's President Defy Political Gravity?
How long can Andrés Manuel López Obrador defy gravity? The list of his country's problems is long. Though Mexico's President promised to combat violent crime upon taking office in 2018, drug cartels still control big...
By Ian Bremmer
February 18, 2021
A Crime Epidemic Has Cost Americans Billions
On Monday, the state of California made a startling announcement: Last year, the state lost more than $11 billion as a result of unemployment benefits fraud—“billion” with a “b”—and another $20 billion is under investigation....
By Ankush Khardori
January 27, 2021
'We Must Have a Third Reconstruction.' Read the Full Text of the Rev. William J. Barber II's Sermon at the Inaugural Prayer Service
The Rev. William J. Barber II delivered the homily at the inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, January 21. His sermon is below. Lord, please help, hold and harness us for Your...
By William J. Barber II
January 21, 2021
The Stories Behind Donald Trump’s TIME Covers
At a dinner for the TIME 100 in 2019, Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, asked me a question: "What is your favorite TIME cover of my father-in-law?” I don’t normally like to...
By D.W. Pine
January 19, 2021
3 Presidents Who Skipped Successors' Inauguration
The image of the past and present President at the U.S. Capitol is seen as an image of the continuity of government
By Olivia B. Waxman
January 19, 2021
3 Lessons From Failures in Charlottesville
As the city’s mayor at the time, it’s particularly painful to describe the failures of government during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in August 2017—but it’s never been more necessary. In Charlottesville, more...
By Michael Signer
January 13, 2021
Save Sarcasm for Other Democracies. America Is Fine
Resilient democratic institutions and conventions prevented Trump from becoming a Modi or an Erdogan
By Debasish Roy Chowdhury
January 11, 2021
How Domestic Terrorism Can Be Prosecuted
Even though the FBI tracks domestic terrorism, there isn’t one law that makes it a crime
By Joyce White Vance
January 9, 2021
How the Next Congress Can Fix U.S Elections
This year, voters across the country faced a myriad of barriers to casting their vote -- a global pandemic, a concerted disinformation campaign waged by the President and his allies and amplified by foreign adversaries,...
By Cory Booker and Tiffany Muller
December 30, 2020
Iran's Hopes for New Nuclear Talks, and an Economic Boost, Rest on the Biden Administration
A terrible year for Iran got worse when the country's top nuclear scientist was killed. As the architect of Iran's nuclear weapons program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was a national hero, and his Nov. 27 assassination has...
By Ian Bremmer
December 3, 2020
America's Crises Would Be Daunting for Any President-Elect
Division is, in fact, more the rule than the exception in American life, writes @jmeacham
By Jon Meacham
November 12, 2020
Our Dueling American Realities Remain. Biden, Harris—And All of Us—Have Much Work Ahead
Early last year, I went to a small dinner in New York for one of my predecessors in this job, former TIME editor turned best-selling biographer, professor and PBS host Walter Isaacson. We wound up...
By Edward Felsenthal
November 12, 2020
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