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Supreme Court of the United States

How Corruption Got This Bad

October 19, 2026

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Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court

September 30, 2026

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An Electoral Mess in Missouri

Madeleine Carlisle

September 16, 2026

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The Supreme Court Recognizes the Danger of Trump’s Election Plan

September 14, 2026

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The Supreme Court Isn’t Interested in Facts

August 27, 2026

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Atlantic Trivia: Our Greatest Debate

August 13, 2026

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Trump’s Déjà Vu Moment on Birthright Citizenship

David A. Graham

August 7, 2026

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Atlantic Trivia: Nice Armband!

July 27, 2026

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A Win for American Democracy

July 13, 2026

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A President With More Control but Less Power

Philip Hamburger

July 5, 2026

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A Supreme Court Decision That Might Improve Politics

David A. Graham

July 1, 2026

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The Supreme Court’s Utterly Mainstream Ruling on Women’s Sports

July 1, 2026

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The Most Surprising Part of the Birthright-Citizenship Decision

June 30, 2026

U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Jr., Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh, and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights

June 26, 2026

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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

June 5, 2026

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Time-Travel Thursdays

What It Would Take to Finally Slay the Gerrymander

June 4, 2026

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How to Save the Supreme Court From Itself

June 3, 2026

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Are You Enjoying Your Girl Rights Yet?

Alexandra Petri

May 15, 2026

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How the Supreme Court Came to Accept a Practice It Called Unjust

David A. Graham

May 4, 2026

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Thou Shalt Not Post the Ten Commandments in Classrooms

Elizabeth Bruenig

April 26, 2026

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How Did Samuel Alito Become This Angry?

Peter S. Canellos

April 10, 2026

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What the Birthright Case Is Really About

April 2, 2026

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Trump’s Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere

April 1, 2026

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I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way

Alexandra Petri

April 1, 2026

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The Supreme Court Has Heard This One Before

Amanda L. Tyler

March 30, 2026

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ICE Might Be Violating America’s Other Bill of Rights

March 26, 2026

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Will Small Businesses Get Their Money Back?

March 17, 2026

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The Tariffs Loss Is Paradoxically a Win for Trump

Rosalind Dixon and David Pozen

February 26, 2026

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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

February 25, 2026

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What Justice Gorsuch Fears

February 25, 2026

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Trump’s Chance to Turn Things Around Tonight

February 24, 2026

What the Roberts Court Is Actually Trying to Accomplish

February 23, 2026

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The Revenge of the Dummymander

David A. Graham

February 23, 2026

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How the Supreme Court Spared America

February 21, 2026

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The Supreme Court Isn’t a Rubber Stamp

February 20, 2026

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The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift

February 20, 2026