A law written in post-Civil War America to try to avoid problems with the counting of Electoral College votes has never been very clear. A…
Amici curiae are 25 scholars who teach, write, and/or practice in the area of federal Indian law and federal Indian policy. The amici are…
For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite…
Governments need rules, institutions, and processes to translate the will of the people into functioning democracies. Election laws are the…
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In his first public seminar as a Harvard faculty member, Patrick reflects on politics, governing, and the need for a different kind of…
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world appears to be at an inflection point. Business leaders have declared the…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most…