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Objection, Your Honor
or years, authors like Philip K. Howard, Walter Olson, and ABCs John Stossel have churned out books declaring that lawsuits and the liberal lawyers who bring them are driving the country to ruin. They...
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here are few areas of public policy where the impact of the presidential election will be quite as stark as the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court. The next president could potentially appoint two or...
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The War of Rape
In December 2007, a doe-eyed young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones appeared on ABC’s 20/20 to tell a terrifying story. Two years before, she said, at the age of twenty, she went to Iraq to work in the...
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Babysitters
Speaking at the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ivanka Trump won plaudits for pledging to work with her father, now President Donald Trump, to combat the gender pay gap. Women, she explained,...
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Republicans vs. Democracy
In June, as the Supreme Court term was nearing completion, voting rights activists and election lawyers were holding their breath, waiting for a decision in Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin case...
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It’s Time for Some Blunt Talk on Weed
In 2014, Maureen Dowd devoted a New York Times column to the story of her own ill-fated experiment with edible marijuana in Colorado. After eating a THC-infused candy bar, she wrote, “I lay curled up...
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John Roberts: Boy In The Bubble
John Roberts Jr. was only two and a half years into his tenure as chief justice when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board. The case, argued in January...
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Democrats Need More Than Demographic Change to Win
For two decades, elected Republicans have all but refused to govern. They’ve rebuffed any and all efforts by Democrats to try to solve the country’s most pressing problems—often refusing to even...
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Was I Too Hard on the Mormons? Nope.
For the Washington Monthly’s 50th anniversary issue, twenty former editors revisited one of their most important stories for this magazine. They looked at pieces that had an impact on the world or on...
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What’s Killing the White Working Class?
In early January last year, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves with a 15-minute rant about the way that American capitalism was crushing families and decimating white working-class...
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