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As the nation approaches its 250th birthday, the Supreme Court has ended its term with a slew of rulings that further undermine our constitutional system of checks and balances and allow more money to flood our political system.
What do th...
How will we remember this Supreme Court term? For Louisiana v. Callais, which demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act. For near misses, too, as when the Constitution’s plain-language guarantee of birthright citizenship was recognized by only...
In this week’s episode, Jesse Wegman joins Michael Waldman to discuss his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution, the first major biography of James Wilson. Wilson was a coauthor of the...
Yesterday I interviewed my colleague Jesse Wegman for an upcoming episode of the Briefing podcast. His new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution, is riveting. Wilson was one of only six peo...
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, the state’s leading voter registration organization. This is part of the latest and most aggressive escalation in the DOJ’s ongoing investigation over...
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Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Long View newsletter on Substack. Zelizer, the author and editor of 28 books, is also a columnist for Foreign Policy.
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