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Stephen L. Carter

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The Outrageous Paramount Settlement Has One Upside

02.07.2025 3

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Stephen L. Carter

The Supreme Court Is Right to Respect Parents’ Faith

29.06.2025 10

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Stephen L. Carter

A Vaping Victory for Big Tobacco Masks the Real Issue

21.06.2025 3

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The Supreme Court Is Taking the Easy Way Out on Trans Care

18.06.2025 3

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We Now Know the Meaning of 'Religious Enough'

07.06.2025 4

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The NYU Graduation Speech Controversy Isn’t New

17.05.2025 4

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If Religious Charter Schools Are Greenlit, Don’t Panic

03.05.2025 20

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How Trump's TikTok Ban Reprieve Could Work

As US TikTok users rejoice at the site’s return from its 14-hour hiatus, curmudgeonly critics — me included — wonder whether President Donald...

22.01.2025 7

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The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024

The past year was a marvelous one for those who read serious nonfiction. As has been my tradition, I present (in random order) a baker’s dozen of...

01.01.2025 4

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There Is No War on Christmas. There Are Many.

’Tis the holiday season, meaning joy and happiness and disagreement and litigation. In other words, it’s time for this year’s dispatches from the...

21.12.2024 7

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Let Ketanji Brown Jackson Live Her Broadway Dream

The reviews are in for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s one-night-only appearance in the Broadway musical & Juliet last weekend, and they’re mostly...

20.12.2024 4

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Texas Tries a New Tactic to Kill ESG

Ah, lawfare. If the controversy over ESG investing isn’t settled politically, plenty of folks on both sides seem to want the matter resolved in the...

09.12.2024 5

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The New Trump Jan. 6 Brief Is Still a Long Shot

Having worked my way through special counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief asking the trial court to reject former president Donald Trump’s plea of...

04.10.2024 4

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A TikTok Ban May Not Be Inevitable After All

Most of the coverage of this week’s oral arguments in the TikTok case has focused on the evident skepticism of the judges. That makes it unlikely...

18.09.2024 2

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Prosecuting Parents Won’t Stop School Shootings

Did the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who as a teenager in 2018 shot and killed 10 people at a Texas high school, bear any responsibility for...

24.08.2024 2

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It Matters Whether It’s ‘Palestine’ or ‘Gaza’

So this destructive war in the Middle East — the one that has diplomats working tirelessly to arrange a cease-fire and protestors taking to the...

23.08.2024 2

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Ponzi Scheme Restitution Deserves Better Math

Suppose you’ve got money invested in a fund. You take some out, but days later you change your mind and put it back. Then the fund collapses. It...

10.08.2024 3

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Texas Border Fight Floats an Odd Legal Argument

In the continuing skirmish between Texas and the United States, the feds just took another loss. This week, a sharply divided US Court of Appeals...

04.08.2024 6

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Stephen L. Carter