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…

8 years after Janus, unions are still trying to keep workers in the dark

The real story of the Janus era is not of collapse, but of choice. Once workers had a real choice, hundreds of thousands took it and quit their unions.