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The Future in Context

Mar 30, 2022

This is the fourth and final installment in a Governing series in a historical look at the Supreme Court to coincide with nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation process, which continues this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. 

After a stormy confirmation process characterized by partisan recriminations...


Mar 27, 2022

This is the third in a Governing series on a historical look at the Supreme Court to coincide with nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation process, which continued this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Just 51 years old, nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, if confirmed, would join a growing list of relatively...


Mar 24, 2022

This is second in an a Governing series in a historical look at the Supreme Court to coincide with nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation process, which continues this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Three dangerous trends appear to be jeopardizing the independence and credibility of the third branch...


Mar 19, 2022

This is the first in an occasional Governing series on the Supreme Court in preparation for nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation process, which enters its next phase on March 21 when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee to publicly make her case for why she should win approval to sit on the...


Mar 12, 2022

The radicalization of a congressional clerk in the 1800s and the introduction of the telegraph set a young country on a new trajectory.

The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol stands as a prevailing symbol of the country’s present-day polarization. But while the brutality of that day sits in the minds of many...