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The Supreme Court’s Inconsistency Is Very Revealing

Paul Rosenzweig

June 12, 2025

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Trump Is Right About Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

June 5, 2025

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Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard

May 30, 2025

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A Victory for Separation of Powers

May 30, 2025

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The Big, Beautiful Republican Shrug

May 24, 2025

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Project 2025’s Architects Are Close to Achieving a Major Goal

David A. Graham

May 23, 2025

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Trump Is Tired of Courts Telling Him He’s Breaking the Law

May 19, 2025

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The Question the Trump Administration Couldn’t Answer About Birthright Citizenship

May 16, 2025

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The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright Citizenship

Nicholas Bagley

May 16, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The Big Focus on Federal Judges Is Not a Good Sign

David A. Graham

May 8, 2025

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Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations

Conor Friedersdorf

May 3, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term

May 1, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Schrödinger’s Detainees

David A. Graham

April 30, 2025

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Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History

April 25, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The Project 2025 Presidency

David A. Graham

April 24, 2025

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The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

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The Supreme Court Has No Army

Thomas P. Schmidt

April 23, 2025

A red-tinted United States constitution with the shadow of Donald Trump's bust over it

The Conservative Case for Leaving Harvard Alone

April 18, 2025

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What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

April 17, 2025

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What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

April 15, 2025

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Trump Dares the Supreme Court to Do Something

David A. Graham

April 14, 2025

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador shakes hands with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

April 14, 2025

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What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?

April 9, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Due Process for Me, Not for Thee

David A. Graham

April 8, 2025

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‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’

April 7, 2025

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How the Trump Administration Learned to Obscure the Truth in Court

April 3, 2025

People deported from the U.S., including some from Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries, stand by windows inside the Decapolis Hotel in Panama City, where they are being held, Feb. 15, 2025.

The Question Progressives Refuse to Answer

Marc J. Dunkelman

April 2, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Independent Agencies Never Stood a Chance Under Trump

David A. Graham

March 27, 2025

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America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State

Washington Week With The Atlantic

What Does ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Mean?

March 22, 2025

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What John Roberts’s Rebuke of Trump Left Out

David A. Graham

March 18, 2025

Chief Justice John Roberts frowns slightly while he wears his robes

The Rise of the Brown v. Board of Education Skeptics

April 2025 Issue

Colleges Have No Idea How to Comply With Trump’s Orders

March 10, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The November Election That Still Hasn’t Been Certified

David A. Graham

March 6, 2025

A group of protesters gather in North Carolina. One sign reads: We the People elected Allison Riggs for NC Supreme Court

What Alito’s Dissent Fails to Understand

Nicholas Bagley

March 6, 2025

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The Supreme Court Foreign-Aid Ruling Is a Bad Sign for Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

March 5, 2025

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