It’s a move to enshrine values into law, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
Conservatism
America’s Judicial Divisions
Every major policy issue is now also a courtroom battle, decided in increasingly partisan settings. And there’s no end in sight.
Keith Ellison: Seeing Red
Minnesota’s attorney general on how to fight back against conservative aggression at the state level
Breaking the Public Schools
Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.
Red-State Abortion Tactics Push Into Deep-Blue Illinois
How pro-choice advocates in two cities moved to take on anti-abortion lawmakers
Our Cults, Ourselves
Is the best way to understand the MAGA movement to binge-watch docuseries about charismatic leaders sending their acolytes to ruin? Tune in and find out.
Saving Wisconsin’s Publicly Owned Nursing Homes
In Wisconsin, where many nursing homes are county-owned and locally prized, an emblematic privatization battle illustrates the latent progressivism of rural people.
Cascading Shame
Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to study the motivations of the left-behind right.
American Political Freaks
North Carolina Republicans nominated seemingly the most deranged pervert in the state for governor.

