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Our Constitution Wasn't Built for Trump

It might finally be time to reconsider the adequacy of our eighteenth-century Constitution for our twentieth-century reality.

By Sanford Levinson

August 28, 2017, 3:33 pm – 6 MIN READ

Post-Mortem

With everyone on the left, from the Hillary supporters to Bernie enthusiasts, offering their own post-mortems, the truth about Clinton's defeat may lie somewhere in between.

By Kevin Mattson

November 16, 2016, 2:48 pm – 5 MIN READ

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The SVB Failure: Why It Happened and What It Means

All the signs of risk were there. And yet, various stakeholders downplayed or ignored them. Why don’t we ever learn?

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The Post-Dobbs Abortion Fight

Why we need to learn that when we defend abortion rights, we’re defending democracy.

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March 15, 2023, 1:00 pm – 27 MIN READ

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The New Libertarian Elitists

What’s behind the dangerous new notion that democracy should be left to the well-educated.

By Henry Farrell Hugo Mercier Melissa Schwartzberg
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Demanding an Open Internet

By Tom Wheeler
March 14, 2023, 3:25 pm – 14 MIN READ