Robert Bork

The defeat of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 changed the way justices are confirmed today.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

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

The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.

The Court’s striking down of a New York gun law relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record that excludes women and people of color.

The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process discusses how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own.

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.

It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.

While the Citizens United case created major shifts in campaign contributions and spending, an earlier decision played a bigger role in campaign finance laws.

Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.

The Supreme Court’s expanding interpretation of the Second Amendment threatens longstanding democratic authority to enact gun safety measures.

Supreme Court confirmation hearings feature senators talking a lot, and nominees nodding politely until they can leave.

How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.