Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner are co-authors of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press).
Do you know where your grandparents’ birth certificates are? Even this Supreme Court is unlikely to embrace Trump’s efforts to undo birthright citizenship, but if it did, it would be chaos for all of us.
This bloc won’t be wooed by cosplay and pandering.
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Irked by liberals from Princeton to Yale and the Justice Department to the Supreme Court, the conservative jurist finishes another term unbowed.
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The party cannot credibly defend women’s rights and the rule of law while standing behind a Senate nominee accused of rape.
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For all of our understandable angst, let’s chart the good change since the Bicentennial.
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Which ones are most concerning, and how you can save democracy.
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The Supreme Court’s recent rulings and the “Great American State Fair” reflect twin Trumpian visions of who belongs in America.
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The 47th president has smashed norms, enriched himself, and even bungled cleaning the Reflecting Pool. But July 4 still survives.
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