Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory — how the Constitution is supposed to work, as ...
Virginia is the new Illinois. The practice of drawing partisan districts is named after Elbridge Gerry, the 19th century Massachusetts governor. Even he might blush at the extreme gerrymander that Democrats in the commonwealth are pushing. They want to go from a congressional delegation with ...
Monday, Jan. 19, marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans to judge one another by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. It is a legacy rooted in a specific historical struggle -- one that ...
"Where is the good news?" my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child. Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity's small kindnesses and large achievements. We had been ...
Americans are often warned about the dangers of overreaction, hysteria or xenophobia, and rightly so. But there is an equal danger in denial. What the country has witnessed over the past several years is not a series of disconnected curiosities, nor the product of political imagination. It is a ...
Democrats are buzzing over the surprise victory of Taylor Rehmet in a Texas state senate race. Rehmet won by 14 points in a Fort Worth-area district Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. That outcome inspired a piece by Republican strategist Karl Rove titled “Midterms Are Dems’ to ...