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How Kamala can fight SCOTUS — and win

Sure, expanding the Supreme Court would help — but limiting its powers is even more important

Salon

A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now

The legal field is in need of serious redemption

Salon

COUNTERPOINT: Decline in religion doesn’t bode well for the republic

Over the last several decades, a growing number of Americans have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the nonreligious. These “Nones” describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.” Some may shrug at this, but you don’t have to be religious to know…

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A jury of ex-presidents? No, but Trump's fate will be decided by 12 citizen peers, in a hallowed tradition of US democracy

It is not the federal government that will hold Donald Trump’s future in its hands. It will be 12 jury members in his eventual trial.

The Conversation

Helping out: How American volunteerism is changing — and why

Since Benjamin Franklin organized the first unpaid fire company in America in 1736, volunteering has been as definitively American as Girl Scout cookies, blood donation and rushing to make something for the school bake sale

The Independent UK

Commentary: US News & World Report university rankings spur a revolt. What we need are more meaningful evaluations

In the beginning, God created the heavens, the earth and American higher education. We lived in a bucolic state of nature until an evil serpent, U.S. News & World Report, tempted us to partake of the Tree of Knowledge: namely, college rankings. A fall from grace ensued.

Chicago Tribune

Review: 'The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville,' by Olivier Zunz

NONFICTION: An informative biography of Alexis De Tocqueville, whose analysis of liberty, equality and democracy has remained influential for almost 200 years.

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