SCOTUSThe Lawlessness Of The Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has refused to block a blatantly unconstitutional Texas law prohibiting most abortions. Why? Power, writes retired federal judge Nancy Gertner, plain and simple.Sep 15, 2021Overturning The Affordable Care Act Would Be Catastrophic — Especially For People With DisabilitiesRepealing the ACA would reverse all the important gains we’ve made, write Sen. Elizabeth Warren and disability activist Matthew Cortland. But we won’t tolerate it. Disabled people are used to...Oct 23, 2020Advertisement Republicans Are Using The Judiciary To Thwart The Will Of The PeopleAmy Coney Barrett is the crown jewel in a long campaign by corporate interests to appoint radical judges, writes Steve Almond. Oct 22, 2020Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Is Backed By Dark Money. So Is Her Refusal To Acknowledge Basic Climate ScienceAmy Coney Barrett's assertion that climate change is a "contentious matter" is the result of a coordinated effort to discredit climate science and protect the financial interests of fossil fuel...Oct 16, 2020Amy Coney Barrett May Be An ‘Originalist.’ But It’s Not 1787, And The Text Isn’t Always The TextThere has never been a difficult constitutional question in our history that could be decided by the text alone, writes Kent Greenfield. The constitution is written at a level of...Oct 14, 2020In 2020, Is Fairness Dead?Much of the fury about Mitch McConnell’s plans to railroad through a new SCOTUS appointment is based on his hypocrisy, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. But should we cling to a...Oct 7, 2020A Vote To Confirm Amy Coney Barrett Is A Vote To Kill The Affordable Care ActWhen the Supreme Court hears arguments over the fate of Obamacare next month, potentially with Justice Barrett on hand, lives will hang in the balance, writes Rich Barlow.Oct 1, 2020Amy Coney Barrett Is Bad For Women. And Terrible For RBG’s LegacyAmy Coney Barrett is bad for anybody who inhabits the fairer, safer world that feminists, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seek to create, writes Leigh Gilmore. Sep 28, 2020It's 2020. Stop Talking About Amy Coney Barrett's 'Devout' CatholicismLet’s keep the focus during this nomination and confirmation fight on the Constitution, writes Eileen McNamara, not on the prospective nominee's religion. Sep 23, 2020First, We Mourn. Then, We FightHer death, at 87, will, of course, ignite a political firestorm about who gets to nominate her successor. But, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than a chess piece in the...Sep 19, 2020Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Unmasked As A Partisan Zealot — Confirming Him Would Do Lasting Damage To The Court Nancy Gertner explains why she, along with 2,400 other law professors, is urging senators not to advance the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh.Oct 5, 2018Those Of Us Who Benefit From The Power Gap Have An Even Greater Responsibility To Close ItMeaningful change will require courage from individuals as well as structural solutions from our institutions, writes Emerson College president Lee Pelton. Oct 4, 2018Brett Kavanaugh Wants 'A Fair Process' — I've Got News For HimLife is not fair, writes Amy Gutman. Even, occasionally, for people like Judge Kavanaugh.Oct 2, 2018Women's Vulnerability, Men's Anger: How The Kavanaugh Hearings Symbolize Everything Keeping Us ApartThe #MeToo movement has unleashed 12 months of raw honesty, shifting standards and occasional overreach. But the Kavanaugh spectacle has set us backwards, not forward. Sep 28, 2018'What Rings True? What Rings False?' To Republicans, It Doesn't MatterIf Judge Brett Kavanaugh is falsely accused, as he so insistently claims, he should be clamoring for an FBI investigation to clear his name. So you have to wonder, writes...Sep 27, 2018Republicans Are Telling The Truth About One Thing: They Don’t Care About WomenPledging to “plow right through” with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, writes Eileen McNamara, the GOP abandons any pretense of neutrality as it weighs allegations of sexual misconduct against the...Sep 24, 2018This Is Why Good Sex Education Is So Important The allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh have ignited a national debate about sexual assault. Jaclyn Friedman argues that to create a culture with less sexual violence, we need to provide...Play03:02Sep 24, 2018I Stand With Christine Blasey Ford. Do You?If enough of us are outspoken in our support of Dr. Blasey Ford, writes Janna Malamud Smith, together we can destroy the patriarchy's strongest weapon -- shame.Sep 21, 2018Playing Hardball Isn't Just For Republicans AnymoreIn the campaign to get Alex Jones kicked off of Twitter or to finance Susan Collins’ opponent if she votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, writes Julie Wittes Schlack, the left...Sep 19, 2018Sinking Kavanaugh Could Cost Democrats The HouseIf Brett Kavanaugh goes down, the Republican base will rise up, writes Wendy Kaminer, helping to ensure the party’s hold on the Senate and imperiling Democrats’ chances of taking back...Sep 18, 2018Next Page
The Lawlessness Of The Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has refused to block a blatantly unconstitutional Texas law prohibiting most abortions. Why? Power, writes retired federal judge Nancy Gertner, plain and simple.Sep 15, 2021
Overturning The Affordable Care Act Would Be Catastrophic — Especially For People With DisabilitiesRepealing the ACA would reverse all the important gains we’ve made, write Sen. Elizabeth Warren and disability activist Matthew Cortland. But we won’t tolerate it. Disabled people are used to...Oct 23, 2020
Republicans Are Using The Judiciary To Thwart The Will Of The PeopleAmy Coney Barrett is the crown jewel in a long campaign by corporate interests to appoint radical judges, writes Steve Almond. Oct 22, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Is Backed By Dark Money. So Is Her Refusal To Acknowledge Basic Climate ScienceAmy Coney Barrett's assertion that climate change is a "contentious matter" is the result of a coordinated effort to discredit climate science and protect the financial interests of fossil fuel...Oct 16, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett May Be An ‘Originalist.’ But It’s Not 1787, And The Text Isn’t Always The TextThere has never been a difficult constitutional question in our history that could be decided by the text alone, writes Kent Greenfield. The constitution is written at a level of...Oct 14, 2020
In 2020, Is Fairness Dead?Much of the fury about Mitch McConnell’s plans to railroad through a new SCOTUS appointment is based on his hypocrisy, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. But should we cling to a...Oct 7, 2020
A Vote To Confirm Amy Coney Barrett Is A Vote To Kill The Affordable Care ActWhen the Supreme Court hears arguments over the fate of Obamacare next month, potentially with Justice Barrett on hand, lives will hang in the balance, writes Rich Barlow.Oct 1, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett Is Bad For Women. And Terrible For RBG’s LegacyAmy Coney Barrett is bad for anybody who inhabits the fairer, safer world that feminists, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seek to create, writes Leigh Gilmore. Sep 28, 2020
It's 2020. Stop Talking About Amy Coney Barrett's 'Devout' CatholicismLet’s keep the focus during this nomination and confirmation fight on the Constitution, writes Eileen McNamara, not on the prospective nominee's religion. Sep 23, 2020
First, We Mourn. Then, We FightHer death, at 87, will, of course, ignite a political firestorm about who gets to nominate her successor. But, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than a chess piece in the...Sep 19, 2020
Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Unmasked As A Partisan Zealot — Confirming Him Would Do Lasting Damage To The Court Nancy Gertner explains why she, along with 2,400 other law professors, is urging senators not to advance the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh.Oct 5, 2018
Those Of Us Who Benefit From The Power Gap Have An Even Greater Responsibility To Close ItMeaningful change will require courage from individuals as well as structural solutions from our institutions, writes Emerson College president Lee Pelton. Oct 4, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Wants 'A Fair Process' — I've Got News For HimLife is not fair, writes Amy Gutman. Even, occasionally, for people like Judge Kavanaugh.Oct 2, 2018
Women's Vulnerability, Men's Anger: How The Kavanaugh Hearings Symbolize Everything Keeping Us ApartThe #MeToo movement has unleashed 12 months of raw honesty, shifting standards and occasional overreach. But the Kavanaugh spectacle has set us backwards, not forward. Sep 28, 2018
'What Rings True? What Rings False?' To Republicans, It Doesn't MatterIf Judge Brett Kavanaugh is falsely accused, as he so insistently claims, he should be clamoring for an FBI investigation to clear his name. So you have to wonder, writes...Sep 27, 2018
Republicans Are Telling The Truth About One Thing: They Don’t Care About WomenPledging to “plow right through” with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, writes Eileen McNamara, the GOP abandons any pretense of neutrality as it weighs allegations of sexual misconduct against the...Sep 24, 2018
This Is Why Good Sex Education Is So Important The allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh have ignited a national debate about sexual assault. Jaclyn Friedman argues that to create a culture with less sexual violence, we need to provide...Play03:02Sep 24, 2018
I Stand With Christine Blasey Ford. Do You?If enough of us are outspoken in our support of Dr. Blasey Ford, writes Janna Malamud Smith, together we can destroy the patriarchy's strongest weapon -- shame.Sep 21, 2018
Playing Hardball Isn't Just For Republicans AnymoreIn the campaign to get Alex Jones kicked off of Twitter or to finance Susan Collins’ opponent if she votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, writes Julie Wittes Schlack, the left...Sep 19, 2018
Sinking Kavanaugh Could Cost Democrats The HouseIf Brett Kavanaugh goes down, the Republican base will rise up, writes Wendy Kaminer, helping to ensure the party’s hold on the Senate and imperiling Democrats’ chances of taking back...Sep 18, 2018
