The Supreme Court could overturn a well-established form of federal taxation.
Conservatism
Posted inLaw and Justice
Why Racial Remedy Still Matters
Focusing on class is good policy, but the long legacy of state-supported racism means we must find ways to keep taking race into account.
Posted inLaw and Justice
In Its Next Term, the Supreme Court Could Claim More Power for Itself
A case on its docket could enable justices to strip rulemaking authority from federal agencies and reassign it to themselves.
Posted inTAP
The Roberts Court’s Cynical Use of Free Speech to Allow Discrimination
Today on TAP: If a Colorado web designer can refuse to serve a same-sex couple, why can’t a business owner discriminate against Blacks, Muslims, and Jews?
Posted inLaw and Justice
SCOTUS Trashes Precedent and Resegregates Higher Education
The affirmative action case once again distorts constitutional protections to ideological ends.
Posted inEducation in America
Progressives Launch Campaign to Win School Board Seats
In what has become a national battleground over public education, the campaign seeks to fundraise for and train progressive school board candidates.
Posted inPolitics
Corporate Support of LGBT Rights Is Teetering
The fascist right is finding it easy to bully Target and other companies with a campaign of homophobic terror.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Stirrings of a Conservative Christian Rule of Law
The court case involving the FDA approval of mifepristone revealed a little too much about the conservative movement’s aims.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Crypto-Reactionary Deficit Scolds
Today on X-Date: Squint at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and you see MAGA conservatives endorsing legislative hostage-taking.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Fed, the Supreme Court, and Their Legitimacy
The government’s least democratic branches are incompetent and corrupt because they are unaccountable. James Madison would not be surprised…