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Transparency Is Killing Congress

February 9, 2020

Congress Has Lost Its Power Over Trump

February 4, 2020

President Donald Trump

2020 Democrats Are Already Giving Up on Congress

January 30, 2020

The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act

Leah Litman and Matthew L.M. Fletcher

January 22, 2020

A road surrounded by green hills on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in South Dakota

The Person Who Changes the Constitution

Robinson Woodward-Burns

January 17, 2020

David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, in the reading room at the National Archives.

Bill Barr Doesn’t Get to Decide What’s in the Constitution

January 16, 2020

Equal Rights Amendment supporters holding up "VA 38 ratify ERA" signs

Did Virginia Just Amend the Constitution?

January 15, 2020

How to Stop a War

January 9, 2020

The dome of the U.S. Capitol building with the sun shining through it.

The Soleimani Strike Defied the U.S. Constitution

Oona A. Hathaway

January 4, 2020

U.S. Capitol Rotunda

The Last Unifying Force in Congress

December 30, 2019

Worshipping the Law While Denying Its Spirit

November 26, 2019

Attorney General William Barr

How to Rein In an All-Too-Powerful Supreme Court

Ganesh Sitaraman

November 16, 2019

Capitol Building

There’s Never Going to Be a Clear Standard for Impeachable Offenses

November 14, 2019

The Capitol is framed by the columns at the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s Defiance Is Destroying Congress’s Power

Keith E. Whittington

October 14, 2019

What to Do If Congress Can’t Get More Information

October 3, 2019

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff speaks to reporters at the Capitol.

The Need for Congressional Oversight Goes Far Beyond Impeachment

September 30, 2019

Adam Schiff, center, speaks on Capitol Hill.

The Not-So-Supreme Court

September 25, 2019

An allegorical scene with figures standing and sitting, one of whom is writing in an open book, while another holds the Constitution in front of a temple labeled "Sacred to Liberty Justice and Peace," with 13 columns.

Americans Can Handle the Truth. Mueller Needs to Give It to Them.

July 23, 2019

Rise of the Know-Nothing Judge

Nicholas Bagley

July 15, 2019

A person walks by a health-care insurance office in Hialeah, Florida.

Why Men Thought Women Weren’t Made to Vote

July 11, 2019

A black-and-white photograph of a woman with her head in a machine with exposed wires

Roberts Thwarted Trump, but the Census Ruling Has a Second Purpose

John Yoo and James Phillips

July 11, 2019

John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan

An Executive Order Can’t Fix Trump’s Census Problem

July 8, 2019

President Donald Trump announces a policy as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross looks on

‘Nothing Prepares You for the Inhumanity of It’

July 2, 2019

Impeachment Is the Song of the Summer

Elaina Plott Calabro and Elaine Godfrey

May 29, 2019

Mueller Breaks His Silence—Without Breaking Protocol

May 29, 2019

The Most Unrealistic Proposal in the Democratic Presidential Primary

May 28, 2019

What Congress Can Do When Trump Appointees Defy It

May 20, 2019

The Rarely Used Congressional Power That Could Force William Barr’s Hand

May 8, 2019

The Baleful Influence of Gambling

Robert F. Kennedy

April 1962 Issue

A black and white portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, then attorney general of the United States, posing in an office

The Public Service and the Public

Dorman B. Eaton

February 1878 Issue

A triptych illustration in blue, black and white tints of Italian Unification (1859-1924). Pontifical troops ask Parliament by Command of Her Holiness in Rome. 'The Reform Bill', 1832 King William IV, Lord Henry Brougham and Lord Charles Grey Emancipation Proclamation by United States President Abraham Lincoln, abolition of slavery, 1863

Roger B. Taney and the Leviathan of Slavery

Charles M. Ellis

February 1865 Issue

Roger B. Taney, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right.