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Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick

Senior Editor at Slate

Dahlia Lithwick is a regular contributor at MSNBC and Senior Editor at Slate, where she writes the Supreme Court Dispatches and Jurisprudence columns. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Commentary, among other publications. She is the host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning podcast about the law and the Supreme Court, and the author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.
 

In 2018, Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act, and she has twice been honored with an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and was a 2021 recipient of the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Awards.

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