by JASON M. SZANYI and KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
This past term, in Ricci v. DeStefano,[1] the Supreme Court reshaped employment discrimination litigation. In a decision that garnered significant notoriety both for its potential impact on the future …
BY RONALD A. KLAIN
In the spring of 2006, with the midterm elections just a few months away, the conventional wisdom was that extensive partisan gerrymandering made a change in control in the U.S. House of …
by Beatrix Hoffman*
Jacob Hacker has an important proposal and people should be listening. His ideas about domestic reform stand out from the current crop for several reasons. He proposes a simple but powerful …
BY MICHAEL S. BARR
How many of us walk by the signs for “Checks Cashed Here,” “Money Orders for Sale,” and “Payday Loans: Get Cash Quick” without thinking about the implications of those signs for the daily …
by Michael Lind
In recent years, the idea of promoting widespread property ownership in the United States by means of public policy has enjoyed a renaissance across the political spectrum. George W. Bush and other American …
by Elizabeth Warren, Sandy Baum, and Ganesh Sitaraman
Americans are a contentious lot. We express an astonishing variety of opinions about politics and religion, sports teams and movies, vitamin supplements and workplace dress codes. Differences on …
by Jacob S. Hacker
Over the past generation, the economic risks American families face have increased substantially. Yet public programs have largely failed to adapt to these new and newly intensified risks, and private workplace benefits …
BY PATRICIA WALD & NEIL KINKOPF
Senator Schumer identifies a “sustained and systematic assault” from Congress’s sister branches as the primary cause of weakening Congressional power in recent years. He provides a masterful account of the …
BY CHARLES E. SCHUMER
Every basic civics text recites that our government is divided into three branches and that these three branches are co-equal partners. But as true as that once was, this system of exquisite …
by DALE BRYK
With federal policy makers largely neglecting their environmental stewardship responsibilities, state governments are coming up with efficient, market-friendly approaches to environmental problems.
Despite widespread support for federal action to limit global …
by Stephen I. Vladeck
The debate over the proper balance between national security and freedom of the press has traditionally focused on the media’s potential criminal liability for publishing sensitive information, as was threatened after the …
by Geoffrey R. Stone
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has …
