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What Progressives Get Wrong About Judicial Review

IN FEBRUARY 1958, a distinguished liberal jurist named Learned Hand told a distinguished liberal audience some-thing that it did not want to hear. The U.S. Supreme Court’s celebrated power of judicial review, Hand declared in a lecture at Harvard Law School, was fundamentally illegitimate.

Against Champagne Socialists

Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths.

Why Did Keisha Lance Bottoms Quit?

The mayor of Atlanta was a rising star in Democratic politics. Then the crime wave hit.

The Group Portrait: the Majority

For the first time, women make up most of the City Council.

Better Call Ken

The Texas Attorney General provided a radical legal pretext to overturn the election. Now he’s using the same tactics to gut Roe v. Wade.

Double Standard Bearers - Supremacy and Sedition

There’s a reason the Capitol rioters have dodged the charge: race.

The Freshman

After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the GOP away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté.

Imagine the Worst

How to head off the next insurrection

Giving new life to old roofing shingles

Gaf is blazing a path toward more environmentally responsible manufacturing and construction

Strongmen? Us?

Don’t let their confidence fool you: Xi, Putin, and other authoritarians are increasingly vulnerable at home

France Is Zemmour the French Trump?

The pundit has gone from peddling far-right rhetoric on the French version of Fox News to serious political contender

147 minutes with …Huma Abedin

Throughout a public career and marriage, the political confidante has remained poised and silent. She’s ready to change that.

The Group Portrait: They Won

The hunger-striking taxi drivers who claimed victory.

It's His Town Now

As he coasts to general-election victory, the post-technocrat, post-progressive Eric Adams mayoralty has already begun.

30 Minutes With… Lina Khan

The FTC’s very young new boss thinks corporations are abusing their power. To fight them, she’s consolidating some clout of her own.

Afghanistan – The Long Road Ahead

The war may be over, but for refugees from the Taliban the battle has just begun

The Tractor War

If you buy a machine—be it a smartphone or a combine—you should be able to fix it, right? Big Tech says no. Ordinary Joes say yes. Witness the biggest battle in the right-to repair movement, being fought on farms across America.

The Right Medicine

When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.

Who You Gonna Call?

After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.

Suck It Up

Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

Facebookland

The social giant isn’t just acting like an authoritarian power. It is one.

Bashar Is Back

In a triumph over the U.S., Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, a long-time political pariah, is now reclaiming a place on the world stage

America Can't Ignore Afghanistan

Exclusive: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says the Taliban can be a partner for peace, not a terrorist threat - if the U.S. stays engaged.

Black Hairstyles Need Protection

In most U.S. states, employers and schools are allowed to discriminate against box braids, locs, and other traditional styles. A coalition of activists and legislators has started to change that.

CIA Creates Working Group on China as Threats Keep Rising

China is an especially difficult challenge for the U.S. intelligence community.

Simone Biles – ‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo'

For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation.

California 1st to Set Quota Limits for Retailers like Amazon

California became the first state to bar megaretailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that grew from Amazon’s drive to speed goods to consumers more quickly.

We Wanted Flying Cars. Instead We Got Targeted Ads, More Surveillance, Insurrectionists, and Peter Thiel

An exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography

Border Conflicts

“Covid Zero” kept Australia safe, if isolated, for 18 months. Now its states are split over how to move on

Where Is Our Paradise of Guilt-Free Sex?

Half a century after the sexual revolution, we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.