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In this week's Elie v. U.S., The Nation's justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who's angling to be the next SCOTUS justice. Plus: Michael Jordan for AG?

Voters want the party to get tough on the industry. But Democratic leaders are following the money instead.

People taking to the streets for democracy.

The president is deeply unpopular, his policies are failing, and Republicans are losing--everywhere.

Trump's tariffs and immigration raids are driving the latest farm crisis. White farmers have stood by him year after year--and still do.

And yet, that's what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do.

We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Since September 2, the US has carried out more than 20 strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking in both the southern Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. At least 83 people have been killed.

Jasmine Crockett can win the Texas Senate race--if voters of color get to the polls.

A legal fight could restore the state's power to set its own limits on contributions to super PACs and encourage public financing.