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The conservative Supreme Court justice is furious with the pace of social change — and poised to do something about it on Roe and much more. Aziz Huq teaches law at the University of Chicago and is the author of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies.

How the world is dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On December 20, 1999, Vladimir Putin addressed senior officials of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) at its Lubyanka headquarters near Moscow’s Red Square.

Laurence Tribe, who turned eighty last year, has been one of the most prominent liberal legal scholars of the last half century.

The decision of Finland and Sweden to apply for membership of NATO is a damning rebuke to the strategic foresight of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.

Our friend Michael Kofman popped in for another conversation with Ryan about where things stand in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

This week has seen developments in two important legal battles. At stake is whether we are a society ruled by law or not. Without law, we face not survival of the fittest but survival of the fiercest – those most willing to use intimidation, force and violence to get their way.

“In overturning Roe by resorting to a time when women were allowed no status in America’s public sphere, the draft puts that very status in jeopardy.” US Supreme Court police officers set up barricades during a protest outside the Court during on Tuesday, May 3.

When Ukrainian National Guard Lt. Andriy Kulish ambushes Russian forces, he thanks the Canadian army. The Canadians trained Lt. Kulish’s Rapid Response Brigade last summer in urban warfare, field tactics and battlefield medicine.

If you focus on the Supreme Court’s expansion of equal rights since the 1950s, you could see Justice Samuel Alito’s stunning, leaked draft opinion as a shocking, anomalous reversal, a decision at odds with the trajectory of the court.

It wasn’t long ago that the U.S. economy needed a shot in the arm. Millions of Americans had lost their jobs as the country shut itself down to slow the spread of a deadly virus.

Justice Alito is a staunch opponent of LGBTQ rights, but he may not have the votes to turn back the clock. Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade, which was leaked to Politico and revealed to the public Monday night, is more than just an attack on abortion.

Russia has scaled down its war goals in Ukraine, redeploying its forces to focus on the eastern Donbas region and the strategic port city of Odesa. A central question now is whether this shift in strategy will help solve the Russian military’s many problems with wartime logistics.

As the host turned a civil war at Fox to his advantage, he found himself at the forefront of the nativist forces transforming conservative politics.

In February 2021, two weeks after taking office, U.S. President Joe Biden gave a speech outlining his foreign policy vision. Over the course of 20 minutes, the new president detailed many of Washington’s overseas interests, including promoting democracy and working with U.S.