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Brendan Hoffman / Getty The Constitution Isn’t Working
And the Supreme Court can’t fix it by itself.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Case That Could Blow Up American Election Law
A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.
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Thomas J. O'Halloran / Library of Congress Dobbs Is No Brown v. Board of Education
Conservatives think they are righting a historical wrong, but the two decisions represent entirely different approaches to the law.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Glaring Contradiction of Republicans’ Rhetoric of Freedom
Democratic governors are showing the national party how to challenge the red states’ rollback of rights.
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The Atlantic; Reuters Should Americans Have a Right to Absolute Privacy?
Nine readers on the constitutional amendment they would—or would not—write.
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Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Is Going to Be Very, Very Expensive
The agency can still regulate carbon pollution, just not in the most efficient, system-wide ways.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is
The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law.
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Abortion-rights and anti-abortion-rights activists in front of the … They Really Did It
The Supreme Court’s conservatives finally felt safe to do what they wanted to do.
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The Atlantic; Getty If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything
No one should get used to their rights.
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Sergio Flores / Getty The Problem Is Gun Culture, Not SCOTUS
A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public
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NYPD / Getty I Was a Police Officer for 20 Years. I Know What It Means to Put More Guns on the Street.
How the Supreme Court made cities less safe
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The Atlantic The Next Fight Over Guns in America
With Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, the only real remaining question is not whether Americans can carry firearms, but where.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Classicstock / Getty What My Mom Told Me About America Before Roe
Erica Jong celebrated women who wouldn’t settle for less than freedom and equality. Now those things I took for granted are on the line.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power
And Congress should claw it back.
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Darren McCollester / Getty The Supreme Court’s Next Targets
The conservative majority is likely to overturn major precedents this term—not just Roe.
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Associated Press The Myth That Roe Broke America
The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
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Getty; The Atlantic What We Keep Getting Wrong About Abortion
Liberty requires restraints on government power.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Liberty No More
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the very definition of what it means to be American will change for women and girls in the United States.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty America’s Blue-Red Divide Is About to Get Starker
As abortion rights are rolled back in certain states, the gap between the country’s two dominant political coalitions will widen.
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Matthew Busch / The New York Times / … Should Courts Assess the Sincerity of Religious Beliefs?
Judges have a tendency to be too credulous when it comes to matters of faith.
