Category: Opinion

I am the North Carolina lawyer who served as lead counsel for the Black citizens whose lawsuit led to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Thornburg v. Gingles. That case gave life to Congress’s 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. Those amendments were born from a simple reality that every voting rights lawyer understood: […]

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The United States is once again projecting power abroad, not out of necessity, but for performance. Under Donald Trump, foreign policy has come to resemble a stage production, with conflict as backdrop and spectacle substituting for strategy. The language of national security persists, but recent actions appear driven more by politics than policy. Trump’s outward […]

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There is an alchemy to the way information finds its way into the discourse, it’s unpredictable and difficult to steer. But during these last several weeks, we’ve seen how a small and independent voice can have an outsized impact. Jonathan Winer last wrote for the Spectator on both the unlikely rise and exaggerated demise of the Independent State Legislature (ISL) doctrine, […]

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We posted a flurry of notable stories this month, and I thought the holiday break would be a good time to give you a sense of why we chose some of the subjects we covered and provide more background on the remarkable writers who have contributed their thoughts and findings to these pages. We’ve been […]

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History has come roaring back to challenge our sense of global order.  So long as the post-World War 2 international system commanded broad respect, we could pretend to keep the peace while camouflaging the contradiction between the principles of sovereignty and self- determination that are embedded in the UN charter.  The system assumed that the […]

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