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The DC Bar Is Refusing to Investigate Chief Justice John Roberts Over a $10 Million Scandal
Chief Justice John Roberts attends the State of the Union at the U.S. Capitol, February 24, 2026. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images
In April, I filed an ethics complaint against Chief Justice John Roberts, over more than ten...
A Crisis of Exploitable and Profitable Ignorance.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Michael M. Santiago / Getty; Samuel Corum / Getty; Jeff Spicer / Getty.
Call it the for-profit disinformation industry. You could view it as a social phenomenon or a crisis of exploitable ignorance, a...
A Wildly Undervalued Tool For Restoring U.S. Democracy
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Congress capped the House of Representatives at 435 seats in 1929 and has kept it at that number for almost a century. The country has added more than 200 million people since then. The number of representatives has stayed...
The Republican War on the Ninth Amendment.
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When James Madison stood up in the First Congress in 1789 to introduce the a...
Preach To More Than the Choir
MAGA supporters sang the national anthem during AmericaFest, the first Turning Point USA summit since the death of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 20, 2025. CHENEY ORR / REUTERS
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