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It was a malleable way of thinking about governing ourselves. And that, of course, has all but disappeared.  Jill Lepore: I ...

The future of voting rights protection is squarely on the line at the Supreme Court in the term that opens in four weeks.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made a startling admission in court: It had put forth false information in ...

A pair of Senate Democrats are accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of overseeing a campaign of “ethnic ...

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This upcoming year is sure to be a doozy for legal coverage in the United States. Not only has the Supreme Court itself demanded more attention in recent years, between its unprecedented decisions and ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, conversations about the Supreme Court, and about girls growing up in a small Southern town. Jon Wiener Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political ...

Accredited access to the Court; reading the contrast between what the Court says about free speech as a legal doctrine and the practicalities of the Court’s institutional position; andthe Internet as ...

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What a Justice says and does not say in public; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recent presence in the media; the line in a Justice’s mind between talking law and talking politics; the risk of talking ...

Whether a vision of the Court might affect coverage; facing new questions of identity and gender, three Justices who are women and the Court reflecting a larger social anxiety; the “Roberts Court”; ...