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Democrats paid a political cost for decades after F.D.R. tried it in the 1930s. They probably would again.

Theodore Frank, a critic of class action settlements, will argue his own case. On the whole, people representing themselves in the Supreme Court have done…

And why it’s time to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., the 51st and 52nd states.

In the years before abortion became legal, a clandestine group helped women with unwanted pregnancies get around the law.

We asked readers how to make confirmations less partisan and contentious. Here are some of their ideas.

A week after the justice’s controversial swearing-in, the African-American activists I study offer a lesson to those who are in despair: Failure is part of…

A reader says the court should rule on legal issues, not moral ones.

Somebody is going to get rich from legal, psychoactive drugs linked to blockchain technology one of these days, our columnist says. Why not him?

The Kavanaugh controversy is a reminder of why the country’s founders wanted a less powerful institution.

Readers criticize President Trump’s attack on “wacko” Democrats and lament that the hearings eroded faith in the Supreme Court.