Matt Ford

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

The plaintiffs in the next big abortion rights case quietly—and ominously—flipped their script to better suit the ideology of the new justice.

The White House is gearing up for a campaign against monopoly power, but it has left the key position of antitrust prosecutor curiously vacant.

President Biden’s plan to protect the right to vote is to hope that someone else will come up with a plan to protect the right to vote.

The Republican Party’s fraudulent effort to stoke fears of rampant voter fraud could claim the freedom of a man who made an honest mistake.

Trump and his sycophants are trying to turn the slain rioter into a martyr—an attempt to obscure their own responsibility for the January 6 insurrection.

The GOP is strategizing how to win back the House through gerrymandering, setting the stage to dispute the 2024 election results if Trump fails to topple Biden.

Fully unmoored from legal reasoning, the justice’s voting rights ruling is cynical and un-American.

Trump was not charged in the indictments handed down by the Manhattan district attorney, but his legal and financial perils still continue to mount.

The Republican Party’s ongoing effort to scuttle electoral democracy got a big boost from Justice Samuel Alito and his colleagues.

Don’t be fooled by the burst of moderation from the justices this term.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is suing the state over its voter suppression law—the administration’s first major response to the Republicans’ nationwide assault on elections.

The events of January 6 have made reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 a vital step to protect our democracy.

The Roberts court deals a blow to California farmworkers’ ability to organize, in a ruling that may have dire implications for unions and regulators.

The Arizona senator has offered the most illegible defense of the filibuster yet.

It starts with “F” and ends with “ilibuster.”

The court’s liberal and conservative bloc combined to deliver a needle-threading ruling on a major religious freedom challenge.

For opponents of the Affordable Care Act, this latest slapdash effort to gut the landmark law may be the last hurrah.

The party once freely condemned the would-be insurrectionists who attempted to waylay democracy. You’d hardly know it now.

The former president and his enablers abused their power to spy on lawmakers. What will Congress do about it?