With Kennedy Gone, Justice Must Be Won at the Ballot Box
Strengthening America’s other democratic institutions has never been more important.
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Photo CreditManuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press We’re About to Find Out How Bad It Will Get Without Justice Kennedy
He provided a crucial fifth vote to the court’s conservative wing, but he sometimes voted against it, especially on abortion.
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After Janus, Unions Must Save Themselves
The Supreme Court’s decision imperils public-sector unions. Whether they survive will be up to them.
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Photo CreditIllustration by Jeffrey Henson Scales; photographs by Paul D. Van Hoy II/Age Fotostock and Toshi Sasaki, via Photolibrary, via Getty Images Why Do We Value Country Folk More Than City People?
Our politics are cracking up over the density divide.
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Photo CreditDrew Angerer/Getty Images Janus Decision Reins in Unions’ Political Power
Public employee unions have too much influence in some states. The Supreme Court’s ruling will take them down a peg.
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Photo CreditEliot Elisofon/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images How the Supreme Court Replaced One Injustice With Another
My father, Fred Korematsu, would have been upset that the court overturned his case only to uphold President Trump’s travel ban.
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Photo CreditJose Cabezas/Reuters MS-13 Isn’t the Problem Trump Says It Is
Rather than a nationwide threat, MS-13 is being used as a political tool for President Trump to advance his immigration agenda.
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Photo CreditBill Plympton Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare
“Sometimes you’re not in the mood to shake hands with everybody.”
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Photo CreditBen Thorndike/Ben Thorndike, via Associated Press How, Exactly, Does This Travel Ban Keep Us Safe, Mr. President?
The illusion of security, purchased at an exorbitant cost to America’s moral reputation.
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Police officials scoff at city investigators’ criticism of the unit’s staffing.
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Photo Credit What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Victory Means
Progressives in the Democratic Party are fired up. As Joe Crowley learned Tuesday night, they can’t be ignored.
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Photo Credit Viva Mexico, America’s Team
Like all blended families, the relationship between the World Cup’s Mexican national team and the team’s American supporters is complicated.
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Photo Credit Princes Charming and Not-So-Charming
The Duke of Cambridge came to Israel 70 years after Britain left. Jared Kushner came weeks after his last visit. Neither had much to offer.
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Photo Credit Democrats Appealing to the Heart? Yes, Please
The enthusiastic response to two recent political ads shows the energizing potential of Democratic candidates with compelling personal narratives.
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With Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring, Trump gets his legacy.
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Photo Credit Uses and Abuses of Economic Formalism (Wonkish and Self-referential)
New trade theory wasn’t like freshwater macro — really
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Photo Credit America Is Guilty of Neglecting Kids: Our Own
It’s not just children seized at the border who aren’t treated with compassion.
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Photo Credit Primary Turmoil Visits the Democrats
Will it energize the party — or damage it, as it has for Republicans?
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Photo Credit The Red Hen and the Resistance
Sympathy for the restaurateur, skepticism for incivility as a strategy.
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Photo Credit The Best Book for 2018 Is 25 Years Old
Everyone should read “Stone Butch Blues.”
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Gray Matter
Photo Credit Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis?
Sometimes people kill themselves because their lives lack meaning.
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Photo Credit How the G.O.P. Built Donald Trump’s Cages
The cruel practice of separating families at the border started under President Trump. But his fellow Republicans paved the way.
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Photo Credit Wrap Your Mind Around a Whale
Why whales got so big, and what that tells us about evolution.
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Photo Credit Single at 38? Have That Baby
The hardest thing about parenting alone isn’t doing it but deciding to do it.
