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July 1, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Stephen Miller Seethes Nonsensically Over SCOTUS Birthright Ruling
Miller is not happy with how the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution.
June 30, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Threatens to Break the Law Over Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump is trying to act like the fight isn’t over.
June 30, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Brett Kavanaugh Gives GOP Roadmap to End Birthright Citizenship
Kavanaugh does not consider birthright citizenship to be a done deal.
June 30, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Supreme Court Hands Trump Massive Blow Over Birthright Citizenship
The high court struck down Donald Trump’s executive order overturning birthright citizenship.
June 24, 2026
The USA at 250
The highs and lows of the American experiment
June 24, 2026
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The Greatest Moments in American History
A chronology of the nation’s 10 most important achievements
June 24, 2026
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The Most Influential Founding Fathers
These were the leading lights who helped forge a nation—though not all of them signed the Declaration of Independence.
June 23, 2026
Rachel Kahn
Trump, 80, Wants to Run for President Again
Legally he can’t, but is he even physically able to?
May 14, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump Offers U.S. Citizenship to 32 Million Venezuelans
Taking another zany plan by the president seriously because he cannot possibly do so.
May 13, 2026
Edith Olmsted
John Fetterman Single-Handedly Tanks Effort to Rein Trump in on Iran
Fetterman was the lone Democrat to vote against the latest war powers resolution.
May 12, 2026
Mark Kawar
This Mexican Border Town Proved the Power of Birthright Citizenship
For decades, people born in Rio Rico, Mexico, were actually born on American soil. Did that make them U.S. citizens?
May 11, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Demands Total Loyalty From Supreme Court Justices He Appointed
The unconstitutional demand came in the midst of an unhinged rant over the potential birthright citizenship ruling.
May 8, 2026
Matt Ford
John Roberts Is Trying to Defend the Indefensible
The chief justice insists he and his colleagues are not political actors, but can’t explain what an overtly politicized right-wing court would do differently from the one he leads.
May 1, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Says It’s Not “Constitutional” for Congress to Block Iran War
Donald Trump has hit the 60-day deadline for needing to get congressional approval on his war in Iran.
May 1, 2026
Matt Ford
The Best Way to Fix the Supreme Court’s Attack on Voting Rights
If U.S. electoral politics is going to survive the high court’s attack on equal rights, the game will have to change.
April 29, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump’s Quixotic Push to Denaturalize U.S. Citizens
While the push is another example of the administration’s anti-immigrant animus, it does not have a free hand to kick masses of naturalized citizens out of the country.
April 17, 2026
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Can’t Get American History Right
In his recent broadside against the twentieth century, the justice is as ill informed as he is mean-spirited.
April 1, 2026
Matt Ford
The Justices Aren’t Buying Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
A clear majority of the Supreme Court on Wednesday was unimpressed by the president’s attempt to reinterpret the Constitution.
March 16, 2026
Matt Ford
How a Bank Robbery Case Became SCOTUS’s Next Big Fourth Amendment Test
Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his constitutional rights?
March 3, 2026
Matt Ford
The Catholic Bishops Who Wrote a Scorching Brief Against Trump
The president’s take on birthright citizenship doesn’t pass legal muster. To hear the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops tell it, it’s a moral affront as well.
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