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Supreme Court of the United States

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

Donald Trump's face looking at the Supreme Court building

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

Get Ready for Zombie Tariffs

February 20, 2026

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The Founders Would Have Opposed ‘Nationalizing’ Elections

February 16, 2026

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Why Harry Reid Went Nuclear

January 18, 2026

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How the Supreme Court Broke Congress

January 13, 2026

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The Court Case That Is Allowing ICE to Stop Just About Anyone It Wants

Paul Rosenzweig

January 12, 2026

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The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025

David A. Graham

December 29, 2025

Russell Vought with Mike Johnson in foreground

Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power

December 29, 2025

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How to Stop Trump’s Plan to Steal the 2026 Elections

December 10, 2025

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The Court Has an Easy Answer on the Fed

Caitlin B. Tully

November 26, 2025

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The Real Test for Democrats

David A. Graham

November 10, 2025

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Donald Trump Dreams of More Executions

Elizabeth Bruenig

October 27, 2025

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It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It

David A. Graham

October 16, 2025

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Atlantic Trivia on Wine, Tribunals, the Revolutionary War, and More

October 10, 2025

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The Supreme Court Is Giving Liberals an Opportunity

October 6, 2025

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So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

September 24, 2025

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Trump Is Getting Closer to Having an ‘Infinite Money Pit’

September 22, 2025

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How Originalism Killed the Constitution

October 2025 Issue

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The Biggest Test for the Supreme Court Yet

Paul Rosenzweig

September 4, 2025

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State of Permanent Fake Emergency

Paul Rosenzweig

September 2, 2025

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The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working

Michael Scherer

September 2, 2025

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