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Thurgood Marshall
April 10, 2023
Michael Tomasky
The Democrats Need to Destroy Clarence Thomas’s Reputation
They’ll never successfully impeach him. But so what? Make him a metaphor for every insidious thing the far right has done to this country.
March 22, 2021
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America
How partisans on all sides overlook the brutal legacies of white supremacy
June 11, 2020
J.C. Hallman
When Mr. Sloan Went to Washington
Sam Sloan is a college dropout, an ex-con, and a polygamist. He is also the last non-lawyer to win a case at the Supreme Court.
December 5, 2018
Matt Ford
The Real Impact of George H. W. Bush’s Presidency
The consequences of his Supreme Court picks are still felt today—as Trump's will be for decades to come.
April 28, 2011
Randall Kennedy
The Case for Early Retirement
January 27, 2011
Justin Driver
Robust and Wide-Open
May 10, 2010
Jeffrey Rosen
The Next Justice
April 7, 2010
Justin Driver
The Stevens Myth
September 13, 1993
Nicholas Lemann
The Lawyer as Hero
The enduring legacy of Thurgood Marshall
June 21, 1993
Jeffrey Rosen
Court Marshall
March 1, 1993
James Traub
For Whom the Bell Tolls

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