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In Election Years, a History of Confirming Court Nominees by Timothy S. Huebner Even unpopular or lame duck presidents successfully carried out their constitutional duties to fill Supreme Court vacancies during election seasons.

In election years, a (spotty) history of confirming court nominees by Jonathan H. Adler In only seven of cases were the nominees confirmed prior to the election.

The Clintons Aren’t to Blame for Mass Incarceration by Leon Neyfakh The 1994 crime bill was wrongheaded and draconian. But it didn’t cause the explosion in the prison population.

The Next Justice? It’s Not Up to Us by Garry Wills Those who profess an absolute devotion to the Constitution should at least pay it some lip service

When Harry Truman Nearly Doubled the Minimum Wage by Teresa Tritch And unemployment went down, not up.

Trump’s anti-trade tirades recall GOP’s protectionist past by Marc-William Palen Reagan's free trade policy is the exception in Republican Party history.

Damnatio Memoriae by Claire McCaffery Griffin We shouldn't be erasing history.

Henry Kissinger: Sage or Pariah? A debate between Niall Ferguson and Todd Gitlin.

Top 5 Scalia Rulings that helped Progressives by Juan Cole Perhaps his passing is an opportunity to point to a few things on which we, as Americans, did agree, because of our commitment to the Constitution, however different our interpretation of it might be in general.

What A 19th Century Campaign To Declare Mormons ‘Non-White’ Tells Us About Modern Islamophobia by Jack Jenkins There is one particularly unusual historical example that helps make sense of today’s barrage of Islamophobia: when American writers, politicians, and even scientists argued that Mormons — yes, Mormons — weren’t white.