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We Need to Save America's Sequoias
By Kevin McCarthy, Scott Peters and Bruce Westerman
The Era of 'Self-Evident' Truth Is Over
By Jason Steinhauer
Putin’s War in Ukraine Shows the Limits of Western Sanctions
By Daniel DePetris
The Legal Trick That Could Undermine the 2024 Election—If the Supreme Court Doesn't Shut It Down
By Vikram D. Amar
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What the Supreme Court Loses With Justice Breyer's Retirement
During the quarter-century year career on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer constantly cultivated two judicial virtues now increasingly absent from the federal bench. The first is a careful, empirical cast of mind, constantly alive...
By Aziz Huq
June 30, 2022
Why Liberal Justices Need to Start Thinking Like Conservatives
America has experienced nothing less than a constitutional earthquake, a jolt caused by deep shifts in the tectonic plates of jurisprudence
By Akhil Reed Amar
June 30, 2022
Both Republicans and Democrats Are Wrong on Gas Prices
On June 13, the price of gasoline reached a historic high of $5 per gallon. There followed an avalanche of accusations across the political spectrum. Democrats, including President Joe Biden, blamed oil companies for gouging...
By Gregory Brew
June 30, 2022
How One CEO Improved Results By Investing in His Workers
For the past 40 years or so, frontline workers in America have been getting a smaller and smaller slice of the economic pie. As corporate profits and executive compensation packages have soared, employees at many...
By David Gelles
June 30, 2022
Hong Kong 'Cage Homes' a Reminder of Its Inequities
Over 220,000 people live in so-called ‘subdivided flats’, a dainty euphemism for their 4 by 4 by 6 ft shoeboxes
By Brian Wong
June 30, 2022
Why I Stay in Texas, Even Though It’s Breaking My Heart
My home office in San Antonio is honeyed with summer light. Outside, a fledgling roadrunner races through the hot dirt and buffelgrass of the empty lot next door. The sun is already high, another scorcher,...
By Katie Gutierrez
June 29, 2022
The Night That Changed Richard Pryor
His daughter, Rain Pryor, writes about how one moment transformed his comedy—and comedy itself—forever
By Rain Pryor
June 29, 2022
We're Dangerously Close to Giving Big Tech Control Of Our Thoughts
Elon Musk has proclaimed himself to be a “free speech absolutist” though reports of the way employees of his companies have been treated when exercising their free speech rights to criticise him might indicate that...
By Susie Alegre
June 29, 2022
We Need to Talk About Animal Cruelty and Mass Shooters
Amid arguments over whether the recent massacres in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York should lead policymakers to focus more on gun control or mental illness, there is an elephant in the room. One trait...
By Marc Levin
June 29, 2022
My Mom Gave Birth to Me After She Was Assaulted. Don't Use My Story as an Anti-Abortion Talking Point
It’s June 27. I’m 29. It’s my birthday. And I wish it weren’t. I didn’t always hate my birthday. I distinctly remember turning 5 in my backyard with a small pony my grandma had found...
By Lane Clarke
June 27, 2022
6 Proven Ways to Reduce Gun Violence
Last week, we saw the passage of the first package of new federal firearm-injury-related policies in a generation. We heard that funds for firearm injury prevention are likely to be reallocated. And we learned that—with...
By Megan L. Ranney
June 27, 2022
It's Too Simple to Call the Juul Ban a Public Health Triumph
After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week that it would order e-cigarette giant Juul Labs to stop selling its products in the U.S., my inbox flooded with emails from public-health groups...
By Jamie Ducharme
June 27, 2022
Abortion Is About to Dominate American Politics Like Never Before
In overruling Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court held that women no longer have a constitutional right to abortion. In Dobb’s v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Court ruled that the issue of abortion is...
By Erwin Chemerinsky
June 27, 2022
With Roe Gone, Here's How to Save Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court confirmed what was long suspected: Roe v. Wade is dead. No time for mourning, let’s get to work on what we must do to save our fundamental reproductive rights. First, let’s take...
By Julie F. Kay
June 26, 2022
Eric Greitens’ Embarrassing Fantasies of Political Violence
There’s always been something a little pathetic with how Eric Greitens publicizes himself. After the Osama bin Laden raid, he went on cable show after cable show, hawking his memoir and explaining how SEALs like...
By Phil Klay
June 25, 2022
The Failure of the Feminist Industrial Complex
What is women’s empowerment in a world without Roe v. Wade? Women receive more college degrees than men, young women outearn young men in some cities, and more women run Fortune 500 companies than ever...
By Charlotte Alter
June 24, 2022
The End of Roe, and How the Personal Became Political on the Supreme Court
In 1921, the future Supreme Court justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote a book examining how judges write their opinions. Judicial opinions, he asserted, did not simply reflect this or that legal theory but also the judges...
By Joshua Prager
June 24, 2022
The Devastating Implications of Overturning Roe Will Go Far Beyond Abortion Patients
On Friday, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution no longer protects the right to an abortion, eviscerating nearly 50 years of precedent and opening the door for states to ban abortion at any point...
By Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens
June 24, 2022
How the Universal Language of Music Can Help Us Solve Our Planetary Problem
As the climate changes, it’s not too late to save ourselves. There is cause for both optimism and pessimism—salvation could take the form of easy technological fixes or cataclysmic climate events that force us to...
By Adam Met and Dana R. Fisher
June 24, 2022
Emmanuel Macron's Uncertain Future After the French Elections
Emmanuel Macron has had quite a ride the past few weeks. In April he scored a resounding 17-point victory over far-right opposition veteran Marine Le Pen to secure a second five-year term as France’s President....
By Ian Bremmer
June 23, 2022
The Story Behind TIME's Oceans Issue Cover
TIME has covered the planet and the dramatic damage done to it by human beings for more than a half century. With the rise of modern environmentalism came a double-width foldout on water use in...
By D.W. Pine
June 23, 2022
The Bittersweet Experience of Celebrating Pride in Florida
It’s been pouring for two days straight, but we’re on our way to Wynwood for Pride. The Lyft driver complains continuously as he navigates traffic on the gridlocked highway. He says he hates living in...
By Kristen Arnett
June 23, 2022
If Our Politicians Could See What We See: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon on Gun Violence
Warning. This is graphic. I still remember those two blood vessels deep in that boy’s brain, shredded by a bullet fired into a crowded playground. The same bullet that blew fragments of one side of...
By Jay Wellons
June 23, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Rule the Future of the Internet. Chuck Schumer Must Stop Him
John Oliver’s masterful explanation of tech monopolies—and how Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is blocking legislation to reign them in—is must-watch television for anyone who cares about innovation and competition in America. He explained...
By Roger McNamee
June 22, 2022
Decisions Are Still Being Made For Women, Instead of By Them. We’re Suffering As a Result
When you look at the stories that have dominated the headlines in recent months, a certain pattern emerges: A global pandemic that is disproportionately destroying women’s livelihoods. A Taliban government that is stripping women and...
By Melinda French Gates
June 21, 2022
Should Donald Trump Face Federal Charges for Jan. 6? Two Prosecutors Debate
As former prosecutors, we are often asked the “could” question. Given the facts in the public record, could former president Donald Trump be charged with a federal crime. Our answer with respect to much of...
By Barbara McQuade and Chuck Rosenberg
June 21, 2022
On World Refugee Day, Let's Commit To Finding a Better Way
We have to recognize that our systems for preventing conflict and mass human displacement, and defending human rights, are not working
By Angelina Jolie
June 20, 2022
If the Metaverse Is Left Unregulated, Companies Will Track Your Gaze and Emotions
The world’s leading neurologists assembled in Seattle earlier this month for a Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications. Sponsors of the event included Google and Reality Labs, a division of Meta Platforms, Inc., the...
By Tom Wheeler
June 20, 2022
My Toddlers Already Had COVID-19. I'm Still Getting Them Vaccinated Right Away
Six months ago, in the hustle and bustle of Christmas activities, I quickly swabbed my girls’ noses (and my own) for COVID-19. They are 3 years old and 1.5 years old. No one had symptoms,...
By Katelyn Jetelina
June 18, 2022
Why Juneteenth and July 4 Honor Different Kinds of Freedom
If we already had one Independence Day, why did we need another? This works as a question about the holidays, but also about the history
By Kermit Roosevelt
June 18, 2022
Putin Still Holds the Cards When It Comes to Global Energy
The much lauded Transatlantic unity against Russia’s war in Ukraine has failed either to save Ukraine or hobble Russia. Judging by the rhetoric coming out of the Kremlin, however, it has fed Russia’s delusions of...
By Suriya Jayanti
June 18, 2022
Why I Will Never Stop Writing Gay Sex Scenes for TV
Gay sex has either been heavily eroticized in TV and film or removed entirely. Showing it realistically is radical and important
By Ryan O'Connell
June 17, 2022
How Stereotypes Shape the Language People Use
As the United States celebrates its the second year with Juneteenth as a federal holiday, many articles will be written about race relations. But I’d like to broach one topic that often falls under the...
By Cydney Hurston Dupree
June 17, 2022
Colombians Want Change. They'll Get It No Matter Who Wins the Presidential Election
There’s nothing new about populist outsiders who challenge for national power. Donald Trump, India’s Narendra Modi, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte and other political novices break through by channeling deep public anger at...
By Ian Bremmer
June 17, 2022
Why I Don't Need to Be Called a Genius Like My Father
My father, now 80, a successful art critic, has always locked himself in a room to write. I didn’t disturb him when he was working. At 46, I have written over the years in coffee...
By Ada Calhoun
June 17, 2022
Will the Crypto Crash Beget a Better Crypto Future?
The cryptocurrency winter, with prices of most crypto assets tumbling in recent months, has shone a harsh light on the fragility of Bitcoin and other crypto assets as stores of value. The notion that, unlike...
By Eswar Prasad
June 16, 2022
This Juneteenth, BLM Should Reflect on Its Global Impact
There is a great opportunity for allyship this June 19
By Chandran Nair
June 16, 2022
Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson Took Saudi Arabian Money. It's Dividing Golf Fans
The actual golf feels secondary to off-course machinations.
By Robert Sullivan/Brookline, Mass.
June 15, 2022
Peter Parker Showed Me What an Imperfect Hero Could Be
When I think of my childhood, I think of all the trappings of the late 1980s and early ’90s—beatable video games, quick-melting Popsicles, dares and double-dares and double-dog-dares. But what was just as present as...
By Jason Reynolds
June 13, 2022
How Andrew Jackson Lost a Presidential Election and Wound up in the White House
Charges of stolen presidential elections are rare in American history. Only three candidates—Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump—have been associated with such claims. In Nixon’s case, rumors of voting irregularities in the 1960 race...
By David S. Brown
June 11, 2022
Coming Out to My Kid Helped Me Come Out to Myself
The first time I said it out loud was to my son. He’d been watching TV and a little cartoon girl was hiding from a little cartoon boy she had a crush on. He asked...
By Aubrey Hirsch
June 11, 2022
Financial Literacy Education Could Help Millions of Americans
Even as our country continues to move past the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain issues persist, there is growing inflation, labor and wage pressure, and rising interest rates. While Americans work to...
By Doug McMillon and John Hope Bryant
June 10, 2022
The Ukraine Crisis Shows How Fragile Our Food Systems Are
The world’s food systems are being battered on 3 fronts: suffocated by climate change, shaken by the COVID-19 earthquake, and suffering from the cyclone of war. June’s food price index from the UN Food and...
By Lawrence Haddad
June 9, 2022
The Ukraine War is Becoming Putin's Vietnam
As the war in Ukraine drags into its fourth month with no end in sight, a number of observers are beginning to ask, “Will the West grow tired of supporting Ukraine?” Some commentators have opined...
By James Stavridis
June 9, 2022
Islamic Outrage Against India Won't Protect Its Muslims
Delhi has tried to mend fences after remarks by BJP officials angered Islamic countries. It won't help India's Muslims
By Debasish Roy Chowdhury
June 9, 2022
Rural America’s Revival Depends on Immigrants
At the Iowa State Capitol during the legislative session in early March, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, I encountered a group of teenage girls from other countries on a State Department sponsored tour. I asked...
By Robert Leonard
June 9, 2022
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