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• Little Sudan What should Israel do with its thousands of Christian and Muslim African refugees?
  Emily Bazelon May 5, 2008
  
• Hey, What About the 24th? The constitutional amendment about voting rights that the Supreme Court forgot.
  Bruce Ackerman May 2, 2008
  
• Gaming Indiana The quirky state voting law that could affect Tuesday's primary.
  Richard L. Hasen April 29, 2008
  
• Getting Away With Torture The failures of the legal system for both the torturers and the tortured.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 28, 2008
  
• How Dumb Are We? How long will women shoulder the blame for the pay gap?
  Dahlia Lithwick April 25, 2008
  
• Court Orders Slate readers weigh in on how to fix Supreme Court reporting.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 15, 2008
  
• Trend It, Don't End It Tracking the inscrutable social consensus on capital punishment for rapists.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 12, 2008
  
• Courting Change Rethinking the Supreme Court press corps for a new era.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 11, 2008
  
• Prison Trauma The epitome of cruel and unusual punishment.
  Emily Bazelon April 10, 2008
  
• Record Shopping The antiquated Kansas law that abortion opponents are using to pry into women's medical histories.
  Emily Bazelon April 8, 2008
  
• The New Blue Laws They're about giving workers a break, not forcing church attendance.
  Paul L. Edenfield April 4, 2008
  
• King Tort A swan song to the fallen ruler of the plaintiff's bar.
  Chris Thompson April 4, 2008
  
• Yoo Talkin' to Me? Plausible deniability, and other reasons why warfare by midlevel legal memoranda is a really bad idea.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 2, 2008
  
• Shades of Gray Barack Obama has gotten past affirmative action. Have we?
  Dahlia Lithwick March 31, 2008
  
• Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton How they could run together and take turns being president.
  Akhil Reed Amar March 21, 2008
  
• Putting the Second Amendment Second Reframing the constitutional debate over gun control.
  Akhil Reed Amar March 17, 2008
  
• Butt Out A big gun case as a natural experiment in judicial restraint.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 17, 2008
  
• Moving Targets The solicitor general is the latest target in the showdown over guns.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 14, 2008
  
• Why Is Prostitution Illegal? The oldest question about the oldest profession.
  Emily Bazelon March 10, 2008
  
• All Roads Lead to Rove A fired U.S. attorney speaks out in a new book.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 8, 2008
  
• Taking the Democratic Party to Court The top three litigation strategies for pissed-off primary voters—and why they're doomed.
  Richard L. Hasen March 7, 2008
  
• Big Business's Big Term Victories for the Chamber of Commerce at the Supreme Court.
  Doug Kendall March 5, 2008
  
• No Bark, No Bite Is the wrong watchdog investigating how the Justice Department came to approve water-boarding?
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 25, 2008
  
• The Harm Initiative How we got hoodwinked into tolerating abusive interrogations.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 21, 2008
  
• The Bite-Marks Men Mississippi's criminal forensics disaster.
  Radley Balko Feb. 20, 2008
  
• The Freedmen's Remedy The big discrimination case before the Supreme Court.
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 18, 2008
  
• Why Now? The timing of the Guantanamo trials is not an accident.
  Charles Swift Feb. 15, 2008
  
• Out of Commission Why the government may lose the Guantanamo trials, even if it wins.
  Jack Goldsmith Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Telecom Amnesty Congress should stop lawbreaking, not reward it—as the Senate's spy bill does.
  Timothy B. Lee Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Anybody's Guess The legality of water-boarding as work in progress.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 8, 2008
  
• Obama the Lawyer President How would he choose judges?
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Alito Is Neato John McCain gets taken to school on judicial picks.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Whatever Happened to "One Person, One Vote"? Why the crazy caucus and primary rules are legal.
  Richard L. Hasen Feb. 5, 2008
  
• The Constitution and the Candidates What would the framers say?
  Akhil Reed Amar Feb. 4, 2008
  
• Alarmist Clock Let's do away with the legislative fiction of the terrorist alarm clock.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Crashing the Subprime Party How the feds stopped the states from averting the lending mess.
  Nicholas Bagley Jan. 25, 2008
  
• Lay Off Linda Why doesn't the New York Times stand up for Linda Greenhouse?
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 22, 2008
  
• If the Yoo Fits ... Why shouldn't Jose Padilla sue John Yoo?
  Emily Bazelon Jan. 16, 2008
  
• Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? A baffling proposal to filter the Internet.
  Tim Wu Jan. 16, 2008
  
• Foul Ball How the Justice Department misplayed the steroids investigation.
  Frank Bowman Jan. 14, 2008
  
• J.K. Rowling's Dark Mark Why she should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon.
  Tim Wu Jan. 10, 2008
  
• Election Burden Indiana's voter-ID law is harmful and worthless.
  Walter Dellinger Jan. 8, 2008
  
• The Inside-Outsider Can the CIA tapes investigation truly be an independent one?
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 3, 2008
  
• The Scourge of the Billable Hour Could law-firm clients finally kill it off?
  Lisa Lerer Jan. 2, 2008