The conservative Supreme Court is poised to dismantle the regulatory state. Representative Pramila Jayapal is the lone liberal fighting back.
Elena Kagan
The Supreme Court’s Alabama Disaster
An evening ruling undoing the work of Trump- and Clinton-appointed judges harms Black voters—and shows an activist conservative Court bent on narrowing voting rights.
What Is Justice Elena Kagan up to Lately?
Here’s why she’s been playing nice with conservative justices.
Is Gorsuch Driving a Wedge Between Conservatives on the Court?
His extremist opinions are combined with an approach that is alienating the other justices.
Orange Alert
Maybe Donald Trump had better things to do that morning. Perhaps the science-scorning scoundrel would have learned something 35 years ago today, if he had read the report in the New York Times about the crisis that would threaten his city three decades later in the form of Superstorm Sandy–a crisis he would shamefully deny […]

