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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has spent this week articulating her views on the Constitution and the rule of law in marathon hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But the most notable perspectives on the Supreme Court and its rulings did not come from the would-be justice. They came from various Republican senators, who articulated a vision of the Constitution that would be radically different for millions of Americans’ everyday lives.

It’s axiomatic among mainstream conservatives that schoolchildren must never be taught that American society harbors prejudice against Black people. Saying so, they believe, is as bad as racial prejudice itself. (Some secretly believe it’s worse!) These conservatives support their point by noting that Martin Luther King dreamed that one day Americans “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” They would have you believe King wanted everybody to just forget about race. Читать дальше...

There’s a bit of a “who saw that coming?” feel to the latest big developments in the Missouri Senate race.

Randolph Bourne, the brilliant young New Republic writer who died in 1918, is now best known for his bold claim: “War is the health of the state.” It’s an unnerving thing to contemplate, and it’s not hard to imagine the dizzying extremes that have been realized in the decades that followed his death. They couldn’t have been far from the mind of President Dwight Eisenhower when he warned of the “military industrial complex” and its ambitions, which—as Rosa Brooks chronicled in her 2016 book, How Everything Became War... Читать дальше...

Jason is a data scientist. He’s also the parent of two young children who aren’t yet eligible for Covid-19 vaccines. Since the pandemic began, he’s used his data skills to try to assess what, exactly, the risks are for his family. Are his children at higher or lower risk than his vaccinated parents? Is it safe to send the kids to daycare? What if their teachers are high risk?