Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first sex discrimination case came to her, improbably enough, from a man. The man who handed her the case was her husband, Martin Ginsburg; the gentleman she represented was a ...

The Americans who brought the Obama era so suddenly to an end were a mixed lot. Many were straight-ticket Republicans who would have voted for any nominee the party put forward. Others were moral ...

Even though right-wing commentators rail against multiculturalism, it’s not unusual to encounter conservative arguments that seem to be influenced by its premises. Whether the issue is targeted ...

In 1988, George H. W. Bush, deadlocked in a tight race for President against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, ran an ad against Dukakis featuring Willie Horton. Horton, in prison for ...

Progressives have lost power in Washington. Every national institution now lies in the hands of the Republican Party. Given the slim chances of Democrats’ winning back Congress in 2018, many think ...

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On Monday, justice finally made its way to Wall Street: The Swiss bank Credit Suisse, caught in a decades-long scheme to help Americans illegally hide their money from the IRS, pled guilty to criminal ...

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Though this is not the way I would usually describe my career, one way of looking at it is that I spent my first 20 working years trying to raise money, and the next 15 trying to give it away. The ...

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023). How could it be that ...

Just two years ago, this would have been an extraordinarily radical essay. Its premise is that court-packing—increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court to change its ideological makeup—is, in ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...