Three changes that could restore the Supreme Court's independence
The goal is to restore balance and accountability to a Supreme Court whose right-wing majority is squandering its legitimacy to advance a harmful political agenda.
A win-win plan to de-politicize the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is on the verge of becoming a political football. Congress can prevent it — if both sides can trade what they want for what they need.
Doomsday speculation about the midterm elections takes hold
President Trump is pushing every button to prevent Democrats from taking control of the House and Senate in the upcoming midterms, including using fear-mongering tactics and attempting to suppress voter…
Trump-Republican infighting hands the Democrats a chance
Republican senators increasingly spar with a president who they see as too focused on his own priorities at the expense of their reelection prospects.
'Dignity' is a poor excuse for blocking press access to state executions
There is, of course, something odd about using the word dignity to describe what happens when the state kills one of its citizens.
Is the US Constitution still fit for purpose?
This anniversary year is a time to celebrate how far America has come and to ask a direct question: Is it time to update the Constitution?
America must not quietly accept educational collapse
We have become the educational equivalent of passengers on a slowly sinking ship.
He may be the king, but is Charles also a bit of a traitor? Dear reader, you decide | Ravi Holy
Britain’s religious right is fuming over a document suggesting the monarch wants to be defender of all faiths. I’m with Charles: what does that make me? We need to talk…
AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney
These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems…














