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Legal scholars argue that when executive branch agencies impose conditions on federal funds, courts should give these cases special scrutiny.
Like the country itself, the justices are divided between democracy and authoritarianism
The bureau's refusal to investigate cases involving federal immigration officers makes it a partner in cover-up
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
Plea bargaining. Can’t live with it; can’t live without it.
Florida’s spree of executing the elderly is indecent and unnecessary.
Jackson’s concurrence traces the 14th Amendment to work done by people ‘beyond Congress’ and Black Americans who ‘helped galvanize the push...
There is, of course, something odd about using the word dignity to describe what happens when the state kills one of its citizens.
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The Supreme Court’s decision is a boon for drug users and gun owners, but not to those who want the Constitution to be as relevant today as it was...
My colleagues and I recently spoke with a group of talented, interesting students who just completed their first year of college about using...
Our history has been marked by cycles in which concerns about the personal character of leaders were ascendant, followed by others in which a more...
Some students might arrive at college with already formed cheating habits, and a mentality that justifies the practice.
If the legacy media are to be saved, we must not romanticize their work. Today, more than ever, journalists need our support and our help to keep the...
Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t...
The president is trying to find a workaround to Biden's commutations — and the double jeopardy clause
The president's retrograde National Security Strategy emphasizes profit and bluster at democracy's expense
Trump demanded "11,000 votes" to change Georgia's election results. To pretend otherwise whitewashes history
Is the ability to get away with murder the true measure of political power?
Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed 15 death warrants this year in the state with the second-largest death row population.
Just like with Roe v. Wade, opponents of marriage equality are playing a long game
Florida leads the nation in executions in a year that has seen an increase in the number of inmates put to death nationwide.
Opposing Donald Trump is not enough for No Kings to be truly successful
Think the death penalty is for the “worst of the worst"? These cases will change your mind.
What happened to the FCC chairman is happening to America
Like Paul Revere before him, Judge Charles Breyer has raised the alarm about what's coming
Thanks to states' rights politicians, the institution nearly never existed in the first place
The party's winning message is staring them right in the face
I’m not ready to return to the classroom and face the bleak condition of higher education.
The 2026 midterms will not be free and fair if Trump can help it
A reckless judicial nominee who would serve Trump's agenda instead of the rule of law
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
Instead of beating the drums about yet another procedural problem, Democrats should give the president his due and change the subject.
California bar proceedings deliver another blow to election denialism
The perils of opposition party politics come back to bite
Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay for disobedience
Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay for disobedience
Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the...
The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people convicted of crimes to bring...
Democrats had a chance to stop this crackdown on press freedom before it happened