This is going to be the most important, most controversial Supreme Court confirmation battle since Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men’s sense that they are more important than women, as a group.

It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president has promised. The problem is that those of us who were looking for some tangible evidence of that have none, and we can't come out of the box supporting her.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.