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  • 29 Aug 2025
    Photo of the supreme court of the United states
    David L. Sloss

    People v. The Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law

    In People v. The Court, I argue that American democracy is broken and that the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine is a key factor contributing to democratic decay. The book charts a path for revolutionary changes in constitutional law that could help repair our broken democracy. The Supreme Court has developed a set of constitutional doctrines […]

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  • 5 Aug 2025
    Photo of a cargo ship carrying freight containers for international trade
    Frank J. Garcia

    Coercion will Fail, but Trade will Endure

    The first year of Trump’s second term has been a chaotic one for trade, as for so much else. Before inauguration, the President had already threatened tariffs against Denmark to force a “sale” of Greenland. Within days of taking office, he began threatening or imposing illegal tariffs against Colombia, China, Mexico, Canada, all steel and […]

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  • 21 Apr 2025
    Oguzhan Dincer, Michael Johnston

    Fifty Shades of Corruption ?

    Americans hear a lot about corruption these days, with prominent figures claiming (and many citizens agreeing) that our governments suffer major waste, fraud, and abuse. Major changes are taking place, based on that justification, that will affect American society and  much of the world. We do have corruption problems, but not necessarily the ones we […]

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  • 4 Dec 2023
    Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

    The Flawed Foundations of the Electoral College

    Central to our concept of democracy is counting all votes equally. Who would support an election rule in which we add up all the votes and declare the person who came in second the winner?  But that is exactly what can—and does—occur under the electoral college.  In 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016, and, arguably, 1960, the […]

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  • 24 Aug 2023
    Jacob Eisler

    Balancing Justice and Autonomy in Democratic Design

    As democracy across the globe faces new stresses and dramatic challenges, the power of the judiciary to reshape electoral procedure is increasingly important. Yet underlying any judicial intervention – for good or for ill – in how people rule themselves is a threshold question: why does the judiciary have authority over the essence of democracy […]

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  • 5 Apr 2023
    Wendy E. Parmet

    How Courts Make Us Sick

    More than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy country. During the pandemic, the United States lost more people per capita to COVID-19 than any other high-income country and life expectancy, which was lower in the United States before the pandemic than in any other wealth country, […]

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  • 27 Feb 2023
    Kaitlin Sidorsky, Wendy J. Schiller

    Guns and Domestic Violence: Why Federal Laws Fail to Keep Women Safe

    Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother were all shot to death in January 2023 by her husband, whom she had filed for divorce from just weeks earlier, and who had been investigated for child abuse two years before that. Less than a month later, Linda Robinson and her son Sebastian were murdered by […]

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  • 13 Sep 2022
    James McCann, Walter J. Stone

    Power and Polarization in a Republic at Risk

    Representation in the United States has always been a risky proposition. In principle, congressional lawmakers have strong incentives to collaborate on the creation of policies that constituents demand, even as they check and balance each other and the president. Ultimately the public interest is served through the fair and timely channeling of group pressures through […]

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