The Limits of Presidential Power: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law

Two legal scholars explain the guardrails that keep commanders-in-chief in check.

Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide

Our legal analyst reviews two pocket-size guides on the impeachment process.

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

This exploration of the haunted, burning heart of rural America leaves much unsaid about its soul.

End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice

Is the ultimate punishment finally dying?

By Suja A. Thomas

The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and

A law professor makes a case for revitalizing a once-ubiquitous component of the U.S. justice system.

The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

By Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse

The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

The seeds of today's conservative judiciary were sown in the past

By Bryan Burrough

Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

A fact-filled look at the United States' so-called first "Age of Terror."

Scalia: A Court of One

By Bruce Allen Murphy

Scalia: A Court of One

How an idea shaped the career of a Supreme Court justice.