Ideas
To fix the Supreme Court, randomly choose new justices for every case
Special interests are gaming the high court to ensure outcomes they like. So let’s stop having the same set of judges decide everything.
Ideas
My friends the political prisoners
Two good souls have been sent away for no crime other than challenging autocrats.
Ideas
The story of their lives
How Ukrainian journalists are reporting on a savage war — and keeping democracy afloat.
Editorials
Blueprint for a coup comes into focus
The Jan. 6 House committee needs to connect the dots and show how democracy was imperiled.
Ideas
Here’s a way for Justice Jackson to reform the Supreme Court on her first day
The court’s reputation is teetering. Voluntary term limits could save it.
Letters
Can Democrats show they have a fight in them?
Whatever the deficiencies of the Democratic Party, they are now the only true democratic party.
Editorials
France, and the world, dodge a bullet
Emmanuel Macron’s election victory should not lead to complacency for the French president — or for other Western democracies feeling pressure from the far right.