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The parallels between today and the antebellum period are concerning.

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During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win--and it's destroying them now.

Violence in movies has coordinators--why not sex on TV?

The decision has received relatively little attention compared with other blockbusters from this term--but it stands to have a significant impact.

Their particularities have been taken as generic "religion."

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The silliness of the originalist project is in full bloom right now.

In her CASA dissent, Justice Jackson gestures to a split screen, a world in which justice and injustice can live side by side within a single regime.

We need to rethink everything from emergency alerts to infrastructure for a warming world.