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What Justice Gorsuch Fears

February 25, 2026

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What the Roberts Court Is Actually Trying to Accomplish

February 23, 2026

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Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power

December 29, 2025

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How Originalism Killed the Constitution

October 2025 Issue

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Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 11, 2025

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The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

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The Care and Feeding of Supreme Court Justices

October 3, 2023

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The Other Black Justice on the Supreme Court

August 14, 2023

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The Most Baffling Argument a Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Made

July 7, 2023

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Inside the Garden of Evil

May 22, 2023

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Mob Justice

Brooke Harrington

May 7, 2023

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Clarence Thomas Is Winning His War on Transparency

April 27, 2023

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Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Friend Is No Nazi

April 12, 2023

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A Glimpse Into a Fearful, Angry, Imaginary World

March 30, 2022

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Deconstructing Clarence Thomas

Michael O’Donnell

September 2019 Issue

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The Clarence Thomas Effect

July 10, 2019

Legal Abortion Isn’t the Problem to Be Solved

Pasquale Toscano and Alexis Doyle

June 19, 2019

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Clarence Thomas Knows Nothing of My Work

May 29, 2019

Clarence Thomas