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June 3, 2026
Steve Kennedy
Uber’s Brazen Legal Strategy to Quiet Accident Victims
The ride-hailing giant is accusing personal injury lawyers and doctors of a fraudulent racketeering scheme involving injured passengers. It’s an obvious intimidation tactic.
May 29, 2026
Michael Tomasky
The Real—and Deeply Corrupt—Reason Trump Is After E. Jean Carroll
Actually, it’s not reason, singular. It’s reasons, plural. And there are 88.3 million of them.
May 29, 2026
Matt Ford
A Fractured Supreme Court Plucks a Death-Row Defendant From Harm
While it’s not a surprise that the high court reached a just conclusion, it’s troubling to see how many justices didn’t join the majority.
May 27, 2026
Perry Bacon
Some States Are More Antidemocracy Than Others. Guess Where They Are?
At every level of government, Southern GOP pols are routinely stripping Black leaders and people of power and agency. Simply put, the South is not a democracy.
May 26, 2026
Harry Litman
Whatever Trump Does Is Corrupt, but the Slush Fund Is the Worst of All
The president and the acting attorney general have pulled a heist on the American people. We can’t let it disappear into the pile of Trump outrages that benumb us.
May 23, 2026
Jason Linkins
Trump Is Now a World-Class Kleptocrat
The president’s demand for a slush fund to pay billions of dollars to his cronies places him among the planet’s most infamous political criminals.
May 21, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund Is a Criminal Enterprise
The president has long been operating under the assumption that he is immune from prosecution. His latest scheme, however, may be a step too far.
May 21, 2026
Timothy Noah
Trump’s IRS Deal Is a Massive Test for Congress and the Courts
The president’s slush-fund-and-tax-penalty “settlement” is brazenly criminal. If our governing institutions can’t block it, America will officially be a banana republic.
May 19, 2026
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry Jan. 6 Tirade Accidentally Hands Dems Midterm Weapon
Democrats will seek to force Republicans to vote on Trump’s toxic new slush fund for January 6 rioters, Representative Jamie Raskin tells TNR in an interview. Democrats shouldn’t let up.
May 19, 2026
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Jessica Bateman
The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Alarming Control Tactics
A series of lawsuits allege that women are being coerced into having abortions by friends, ex-partners, or others who are close to them. But the accused are rarely the real abusers in these stories.
May 18, 2026
Aaron Regunberg
Samuel Alito Has a Corruption Problem
The justice has significant—and familiar—conflicts of interest in an upcoming Big Oil case. The question is: Will he recuse himself?
May 16, 2026
Jason Linkins
The Democrats Just Laid Down Their Arms. Again.
Abigail Spanberger’s response to the court decision that overthrew the will of voters on redistricting is a worrying sign of surrender.
May 14, 2026
Steve Kennedy
The Conservative Legal Movement’s New Purity Tests
Time was that David Souter was the bête noire of the right wing. But now judges like Amy Coney Barrett aren’t passing muster.
May 14, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump Offers U.S. Citizenship to 32 Million Venezuelans
Taking another zany plan by the president seriously because he cannot possibly do so.
May 12, 2026
Billy Corriher
The Stealthy Rise of the Business Court
States are rushing to establish new judicial venues to resolve business disputes. But the way they’re being built suggests they’ll be very cozy with corporate power.
May 12, 2026
Mark Kawar
This Mexican Border Town Proved the Power of Birthright Citizenship
For decades, people born in Rio Rico, Mexico, were actually born on American soil. Did that make them U.S. citizens?
May 12, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump Thinks the Supreme Court Works for Him
Despite their handing him an endless array of political wins over the past few years, the president still believes his nominees haven’t shown sufficient loyalty.
May 11, 2026
Greg Sargent
Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats
The state’s Democrats have decided against forcing resignations on the state Supreme Court to preserve their redistricting. Funny how Republicans always find a way, and Democrats don’t.
May 8, 2026
Matt Ford
John Roberts Is Trying to Defend the Indefensible
The chief justice insists he and his colleagues are not political actors, but can’t explain what an overtly politicized right-wing court would do differently from the one he leads.
May 8, 2026
Hannah Garden-Monheit
Less Noted, Just as Radical: The High Court’s Rightward Economic Shift
The Supreme Court and other federal courts have moved dramatically to the right on economic policy as well as social and democracy policy. It’s time to take on that fight too.
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