If the oral arguments earlier this month offer any indication, the Supreme Court will uphold the banned practice—and then some.
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Will Women Rising in the Church of England Influence the Vatican?
When King Charles attends a prayer service at the Vatican this week, it will be just a prelude to 2026, when a woman becomes the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Russia Through a Feminist Lens
Julia Ioffe’s “Motherland,” a much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia, offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary.
“Does Trump Deserve Credit for the Ceasefire?” Is the Wrong Question
The strategic failures of Israel and Hamas are far more important cautionary tales to learn from.
Don’t Fall for the School Closure Temptation
The first weeks of fall at Arlie Boggs Elementary School in rural Eolie, Kentucky, are usually filled with back-to-school routines. New names line the cubbies, and the hallways gleam with a fresh coat of wax. The sounds of a new school year fill the classrooms. But not this year. Today, Arlie Boggs sits empty. The […]
An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming
Trump’s cruel and disastrous policies—slashing food stamps and hiking inflationary tariffs—put millions of Americans at risk.
Louis C.K.’s Saudi Arabia Defense Is Terrible
Just because you can tell your favorite jokes doesn’t mean you have struck a blow for free speech.
What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill
The famed western showman lamented the killing of Sitting Bull and the suffering of the Lakota tribe at Wounded Knee. The “Secretary of War” pretends it didn’t happen.
The Judge Standing up to Trump’s Portland Invasion
“Freedom,” wrote George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “is the freedom to say two plus two make four. Once that is granted, all else follows.” But what if the test is whether a president can add two and two and get in the neighborhood of four? What if the president says 2+2=10,000? Is that close enough […]
Mid-Decade Redistricting: Why State Courts Should Be Suspicious
They have good reason to presume unlawful partisanship is at work when a supine statehouse gives in to partisan demands and gerrymanders districts to skew the results.

