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The Conservative Supreme Court’s Decision Allowing Deportations to Third Countries Should Shock the Conscience of Americans
The fate that likely awaits those deported to South Sudan violates the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment
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Linda Chavez
1
America Needs a Bold Constitutional Reconstruction Agenda to Tame Presidential Powers
Fundamental flaws in our parliamentary rules, courts, and electoral system made our country vulnerable to an authoritarian takeover
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Andy Craig
11
Big Law Is Finally Getting its Act Together and Fighting Trump's Attacks
To defend our rights, the legal profession has to vigorously defend its own
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Paul Rosenzweig
1
ISMA Hosts its Second Annual 'Liberalism for the 21st Century' Conference
The UnPopulist's publisher will build on last year's highly successful event and once again bring together thinkers and advocates fighting…
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Shikha Dalmia
The Administration’s Contempt for the Rule of Law Has Roots in the Pre-Civil Rights Era
Defenders of liberal democracy cannot succumb to Donald Trump's attempts to scare them into inaction
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Steve Chapman
4
MAGA Pundits Are Triggered That Superman Is an Immigrant
But he is an embodiment of America’s essential goodness and promise
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Jacob Grier
6
The Truth Is, There Are No Legal Limits on an American President’s Warmaking
And the public no longer really cares about distant wars whose bill won’t come due for a while
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Trevor Burrus
2
Trump Is Gutting Every Source of America's Greatness
His attacks on the country's painstakingly built diplomatic, scientific, and human capital will turn it into a second-rate power
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Larry Diamond
14
Ben Franklin Declared His Independence from his Inheritance of Nasty Superstitions and Became an Enlightenment Man
A Fourth of July revisiting of a Founding Father’s family connection to the Salem Witch Trials
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Andy Craig
3
Crypto Is the Perfect Currency for Trump's Corrupt Pay-to-Play Presidency
He is using this digital medium in unprecedented ways to monetize his power and personally enrich himself
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Robert Tracinski
10

June 2025

Can an Israeli State Poised for Constant Violence Deliver True Peace to Jews?
The Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran might be a military success but the deteriorating plight of the Palestinians may well produce more future conflict
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Michael G. Holzman
26
The Supreme Court's Ban on Universal Injunctions Will Kneecap Americans Fighting for their Rights
The conservative justices have issued a sweeping and ideological ruling that'll allow the president and government at all levels to get away with…
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Anthony Sanders
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