Why the Supreme Court’s Attack on Labor Hurts Women Most Why the Supreme Court’s Attack on Labor Hurts Women Most
The Hobby Lobby case is more clearly aimed at women, but Harris v. Quinn may prove even more consequential for the lives of working women.
Jul 7, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Nullification: Jurors’ Secret Weapon Against Harsh Sentencing Nullification: Jurors’ Secret Weapon Against Harsh Sentencing
Juries have the right to judge the law as well as the defendant.
Jul 7, 2014 / Molly Knefel
10 Questions All Politicians Should Answer About Gun Control 10 Questions All Politicians Should Answer About Gun Control
Thanks to an effort by Everytown for Gun Safety, the NRA will now not be the only group asking candidates for their positions on gun control.
Jul 7, 2014 / George Zornick
Is Obama Throwing Immigrant Children Under the Bus? Is Obama Throwing Immigrant Children Under the Bus?
Now that Obama has given up trying to appease the GOP, why he is considering weakening a law intended to protect immigrant children from trafficking and violence?
Jul 4, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Right, and We Already Have Proof Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Right, and We Already Have Proof
It only took a day for the Court’s “limited” Hobby Lobby decision to start to crack open.
Jul 2, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
DREAMers in Grad School DREAMers in Grad School
Four states have granted in-state tution to undocumented students, but the higher education pipeline continues to be plagued.
Jul 2, 2014 / StudentNation / Jude Paul Dizon and StudentNation
The One Supreme Court Decision We Can Celebrate The One Supreme Court Decision We Can Celebrate
In ruling that police may not search cellphones without a warrant, the Court brought the Fourth Amendment into the twenty-first century.
Jul 2, 2014 / David Cole
After ‘Harris v. Quinn’: The State of Our Unions After ‘Harris v. Quinn’: The State of Our Unions
After one of Supreme Court’s most anti-union rulings in recent years, is there still time for organized labor to save itself?
Jul 2, 2014 / Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein, Joel Rogers, Joshua Freeman, and Jane McAlevey
Where Will the Slippery Slope of ‘Hobby Lobby’ End? Where Will the Slippery Slope of ‘Hobby Lobby’ End?
There’s no telling how far religious exemptions will go under Justice Alito’s ruling.
Jul 2, 2014 / Column / Katha Pollitt
How the Supreme Court Undermined Women’s Citizenship How the Supreme Court Undermined Women’s Citizenship
The court’s decision to invalidate the abortion clinic buffer zone limits the privacy women require as participants in a democracy.
Jul 2, 2014 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry