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The nomination of Kavanaugh and subsequent creation of a definitively conservative Court will likely not result in the immediate overturn of cases like Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges. Kavanaugh’s nomination therefore poses a threat not to the existence of these rights and practices themselves — abortion, same-sex marriage, and race-based affirmative action among them — but rather the ease and extent to which citizens will be able to enjoy them.

The political conversation today is rife with debate surrounding immigration. Whether legal or illegal, many immigrants threatened by the actions of the Trump administration...

According to a recent survey of 2,631 individuals aged 18 to 29 conducted by the Harvard Public Opinion Project, millennials broadly support gun control...

On one remarkable night in December, red, white, and blue confetti rained down on supporters of Senator-elect Doug Jones. The Birmingham Sheraton Hotel was...

On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his Dodge Charger into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. One woman was...

Just before Alec Raeshawn Smith turned 24, he thought he had come down with the flu. When he went to the doctor a few...

Silicon Valley has long been heralded as the world’s center of innovation. Yet every day, when some of the country’s smartest engineers commute to...

  Karthik Chandramouli has always been an active citizen. Growing up in Kentucky as the only son of two Indian immigrant professionals, Chandramouli recalls his...

America is facing a fiscal crisis and no one is talking about it. Pension reform has snuck under the public’s radar, even though it...

This article was co-authored by Akshaya Annapragada, Chad Borgman, Katherine Ho, Quinn Mulholland, and Akash Wasil. In the POLITICO feature “Paul Ryan’s Favorite Charter School,”...