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Austin Sarat, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Public libraries, once considered the backbone of America’s civic infrastructure, are under attack.
The Arizona Supreme Court decision was not just a political bombshell — it was legally bizarre.
From the time he was sentenced, Brian Dorsey’s story was a powerful antidote to despair. It calls on all of us not to give up hope, even for those...
The court’s decision in the Pulsifer case is more than an English teacher’s nightmare. It guts a key section of the First Step Act.
Recent legal developments in Trump’s various cases should have made it clear that no one — no judge, no jury — is coming to save us or to rescue...
If Biden is going to win their votes, he will have to move the fear of crime to the top of his agenda.
How will Thomas respond to these urgent appeals?
If Joe Biden wants to win, he will need to take on the crime issue.
If Trump is re-elected, he will not rest with Dobbs. He will go after reproductive rights everywhere.
What happens in a state that authorizes the death penalty but has no legal means of carrying it out?
America is poll-obsessed.
I guess Reps. Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise hope that people won’t recall what they said or did during the Trump presidency.
Trump’s Iowa victory should be a wake-up call.
interest rates.” In the end, Biden’s task is to connect the defense of democracy to the day-to-day concerns of the American electorate.
As if we needed more uncertainty in our electoral process, consider these two quite different decisions that were made last week about whether Donald...
Smith is right about the public interest in getting on with the legal proceedings that will determine if Trump is a criminal. If jurors find him...
What is happening in the Lone Star State is a harbinger of the fate of capital punishment across the country.
Our country is divided over the question of whether we should evaluate free speech claims in light of the messages or causes that speech seeks to...
The more politicians lie, the more people come to see it as an inevitable part of political life.
The court’s conservative majority turned a blind eye to Michael Johnson’s suffering and ignored his request that it limit the kinds of cruelty...
How would you like to live in a country where people who criticize the nation’s leader end up in jail? Sounds more like Putin’s Russia than the...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday is slated to deliver remarks on the global economy. The central bank has repeatedly raised interest...
The younger generation has good reason to be disillusioned with democracy.
As the war in the Middle East intensifies following Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden finds himself in a political...
In the end, the forces that did in Jim Jordan may help lay the groundwork for defeating in Trump in his effort to recapture the White House.
In the wake of the horrors perpetrated by Hamas on innocent Israeli citizens, leaders from President Biden to heads of cultural, political and...
More than half a dozen Republicans joined Democrats to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House Speaker in a historic vote on Tuesday, the first...
It may be a hard sell, but the president is right: “For all its faults, though, American democracy remains the best pass [path] forward to...
Donald Trump has already laid the groundwork for defiance.
Judge Steve Jones's opinion makes clear that Mark Meadows failed to do what every White House chief of staff must do — namely, make sure that each...