Dahlia Lithwick
Politics
How They Defend the IndefensibleThe Trump administration is playing a game of choose your own facts, but every single version of this story ends with screaming children in cages.
Family
Raising Boys in an Age of “Gender Battles”If more men publicly called out their female partners as true intellectual equals, it would set an important example for our sons.
Political Gabfest
The “Special Place in Hell” EditionListen to Slate’s show about the Kim-Trump summit, voting rights in Ohio, and Tuesday’s primaries.
Amicus
Bonus: Live From the ACLUA legal all-star panel with David Cole, Vanita Gupta, Joyce White Vance, and Richard Painter.
Amicus
Religious Belief, Sincerely HeldExamining the narrow slicing of the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling and contemplating the role of faith in our laws.
Jurisprudence
“There Is No Deus Ex Machina Clause in the Constitution”Why Democrats shouldn’t impeach Donald Trump if they win the House.
Jurisprudence
Collusion Is What I Say It IsTrump has invented his own legal language to distort the case against him—and it’s working.
Politics
The Moral Conundrum of the Trump EraShould Republicans quit and save themselves, or stay and try to save the rest of us?
Amicus
The State of the State Attorneys GeneralMassachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on gun safety wins, the resistance, and Eric Schneiderman.
Movies
RBG Reveals the Woman Behind the MemesThe documentary understands that it was a different kind of radicalism that made the justice notorious.
Jurisprudence
Mimes in RobesTrump’s judicial nominees are now refusing to answer any questions about what it is they actually believe.
Jurisprudence
The Shrinking of James ComeyHow publicly engaging with Donald Trump, especially on television, makes the former FBI director look small.
Jurisprudence
Secret HandshakeThe depressing truth at the center of the O’Reilly and Trump settlement agreements.
Jurisprudence
The Supreme Court Is Not Going to Save YouUnder John Roberts, SCOTUS has shied so far from anything resembling partisanship that it risks undermining its own authority.
Politics
Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the BorderLawyers, translators, donations, protest.
Politics
It’s All Too Much, and We Still Have to CareWhat’s going on at the border is horrifying, but we can’t go numb and turn away.
Jurisprudence
Fraud Fiction Becomes Purge RealityThe Supreme Court’s decision in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute is the culmination of a decadeslong effort to disenfranchise minority and low-income voters.
Jurisprudence
Anthony Kennedy’s Suffering OlympicsThe justice’s preoccupation with civility turned Masterpiece Cakeshop into an argument over who spoke more rudely.
Jurisprudence
Performative PardonsDonald Trump is using presidential clemency to signal what laws he thinks matter—and which laws his friends can break with impunity.
Politics
How to Survive Trump’s Presidency Without Losing Your MindThe world is on fire, and it has gotten oh so mundane. How do we grapple with the madness while still living our lives?
Jurisprudence
No Time to PretendThe courts and the press are putting themselves at risk by treating Donald Trump like a normal president.
Amicus
Travel Ban 3.0 and Rinsing Off Religious Animus for SCOTUSUnpacking the arguments in the marquee case of this term.
Jurisprudence
The ERA Is BackThe ’70s-era constitutional amendment could be the perfect remedy for the #MeToo era.
Amicus
Don’t Call It an Abortion CaseNIFLA v. Becerra may be all about reproductive rights, but it’s a speech case, too.