Earl Warren

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.

Though best known for his dedication to civil rights as Chief Justice, Earl Warren was a key figure behind Japanese internment in California - and stood by it.

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

Sylvia Mendez’s role in setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education has been forgotten and overlooked.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

Trump’s “Rededicate 250” event reframes America as a Christian nation, despite the Constitution’s secular roots and “under God” being a 1950s addition.

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.

Medicaid has always been fiercely contested political terrain, and past cuts have had disastrous human costs.

As Democrats became the party of proceduralism, they sidestepped a crucial debate.

The same legal and cultural struggles will await the next critical infrastructural technology, and the next.

Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions and argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

Water insecurity, territorial expansion, and the making of a US-Mexico border city.

A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.

One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.

The Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.

In “The Court at War,” Cliff Sloan examines the close relationship between FDR and the high court during World War II.

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.