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Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and preserve his historical... →
FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two... →
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early... →
How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I... →
Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared... →
The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing... →
The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign;... →
The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people were not being detained subject to rules. I... →
The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are... →
The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white... →
The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players... →
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional... →
Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with... →
Noah Feldman (born 1970) is an American author and professor of law at Harvard Law School.