Dobbs May Represent the Big Bang for Abortion Politics
Post-Roe, the abortion issue will likely heat up at every level of government as we enter into a period of greater instability and conflict.
What the Dobbs Draft Opinion Doesn’t Do
Far from radical, the opinion is actually modest in scope — leaving conservatives still in need of an alternative theory of rights.
How Dobbs Could Rattle the Left, Rev Up the Right, and Restore the American System
The leak and the draft opinion itself remind us that we must preserve the line between politics and the law.
The Leaked Dobbs Opinion Would Be a Credit to the Supreme Court and to the Country
The Court appears to have taken the first step toward restraining itself and repairing both the legal and political defects of its privacy jurisprudence.
Iran Cannot Be Trusted to Respect a Revived Nuclear Deal
The Biden administration has plenty of evidence that the regime has no credibility when it makes promises for a deal that cannot be enforced.
How to Help Ukraine: Unlearn the False Lessons of the Cold War
America prevailed against the USSR by risking conflict, not by creating a force field around a battlefield within which the Russians could do as they pleased.
The Electoral Count Act Debate Understates the Vice President’s Role
Whatever roles the Constitution may assign to the states, the vice president, or the federal courts in resolving disputed electoral votes, it excludes Congress.
Clarence Thomas, an American Justice
On the uniquely American story and jurisprudence of Justice Thomas
Why Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Fails the Constitutional Test
In the name of an ‘emergency,’ the administration is invoking a 50-year-old statute of doubtful relevance to justify a sweeping mandate over the private sector.
Why We Failed in Afghanistan
Following the ignominious end to a 20-year effort, American foreign-policy elites must reassess their ambitions and assumptions.