It’s only through an independent check that authoritarianism has ever been stopped.

Aziz Z. Huq responds to Lisa L. Miller’s “The Dead End of Checks and Balances.”

Who Owns Our Data?

We need a model of ownership that recognizes our collective interests.

Bostock v. BLM

Two conflicting visions of equality have recently emerged on the American political left. Only one aims at institutional change.

Designing Better Impeachments

How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls.

America’s Refugee Debt

The United States should take responsibility for its actions in Syria

The Rise of the Anti-Muslim Fringe

— and how it became mainstream.

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