Upholding Tennessee’s law banning hormone therapies and other treatments for trans youth alone relied on legal gymnastics and revived a long-discredited opinion from the 1970s.
Civil Rights Act
Posted inPolitics
Hubert Humphrey’s Liberalism for Our Time
“Liberalism always finds itself beleaguered at a moment of radical polarization,” journalist and historian James Traub writes in his deft and thoughtful biography of Hubert Humphrey to be published next month. While the right wing has organized around the destruction of liberalism and the far left denounces liberals as gutless sellouts, Traub argues that studying […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Grudge Holding, Double Gun Shooting Supreme Court Justice Who Might Save Mark Meadows
The former White House chief of staff wants his case moved to federal court. If the Trump ally prevails, he’ll owe a debt to a swashbuckling justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln.
Posted inPolitics
What Joe Biden and LBJ Have in Common
Each saw the expansion of rights as key to their national ambitions, writes a noted historian. For LBJ, it was civil rights; for Biden, it was abortion.
Posted inMagazine
Affirmative Action for Lax Bros
A closer look at the Harvard admissions case now before the Supreme Court shows that it’s whites who benefit most from discrimination against Asians.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
On the Basis of Sex
The amazing success and frustrating challenges of Title IX.
