Choosing Pragmatism Over Textualism
A method of judicial interpretation that looks only to the original meaning of legal texts risks producing a Constitution and laws that no one would want.
May 23, 2024 issue
Mexico’s Politics of Bitterness
On the eve of Mexico’s presidential elections, Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintains a high approval rating. But his constitutional chicanery and disregard for the law have undermined democracy, and his divisive rhetoric has polarized the country.
June 6, 2024 issue
Is Israel Committing Genocide?
I have been engaged for six decades in the human rights movement, which has endeavored to restore peace by enforcing International Humanitarian Law. Can the law bring a measure of justice to the victims of Israel’s and Hamas’s violence?
June 6, 2024 issue
Visible and Invisible Worlds
While our brains do not simply mirror our surroundings, animals—nonhuman and human—are exquisitely embedded, suspended, in nature’s energies.
June 6, 2024 issue
Let There Be Light
The new installation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s refurbished European Paintings galleries brings masterpieces of the collection into exhilarating juxtaposition with one another.
June 6, 2024 issue
Alice Munro (1931–2024)
Nathan Thrall
A Day in the Life of Abed SalamaRead the article that grew into the book of the same name, this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
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