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Law & Justice, Politics

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Colleen Murphy

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Law & Justice

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing.

Mike Konczal

Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Hangs in the Balance

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Law & Justice

How Criminal Law Lost Its Mind

Many U.S. criminal statutes betray the bedrock legal principle of mens rea. The result is a deeply unjust system that punishes the morally innocent.

Michael Serota

Law & Justice, Politics

Our Undemocratic Constitution

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.

Julie C. Suk

Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Is on the Ballot

Donald Trump's winning strategy.

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Save the Equal Rights Amendment

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

Julie C. Suk

Law & Justice, Politics

Trump’s America Remains Stuck in the Shadow of Reagan

Only a few decades old, the corporate autocracy the former president unleashed on the United States is not natural law. It had to be created, and it can also be undone.

Martin Gelin

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

U.S. Politics is Failing Children

Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?

Rajan Menon

Law & Justice, Politics

American Democracy Is in the Mail

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.

Daniel Carpenter

Law & Justice, Politics

What's Next for Abortion Law?

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.

Mary Ziegler

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners

Law & Justice

Our Broken Constitution

Constitutional crisis won’t be fixed by a few isolated reforms. We need to rethink the Constitution from the ground up.

Mark Tushnet

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