| Apr 20, 2022 | Rights / DemocracyMuch ink has been spilled over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election, despite his wife’s participation in efforts to overthrow it. Those are sensible calls. But meanwhile, too little attention has been...
| Apr 30, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPerhaps the most important consequence of Donald Trump’s presidency has been the federal judiciary’s rightward lurch. As of April 1, he’d appointed a record 39 far-right judges to lifetime posts on the Supreme Court and federal circuit courts — more than half the...
| Apr 3, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
| Jun 27, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Supreme Court is a real piece of work. Over the last few days it’s been popping off far-right proclamations like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. Except this uncle gets to make the rules in your house, and he can stay there until he dies. Over about 48 hours, the...
| Apr 5, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyIn today’s polarized political climate, it seems like there’s no issue that people can agree on — except for maybe one. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and people on all parts of the spectrum largely agree on one thing: There’s...
