What if the Grand Jury investigating the Michael Brown shooting fails to indict Officer Darren Wilson? We may find out if newly leaked evidence is accurate.
The passing of a true legend in American journalism.
A collision between marriage equality and religious liberty, but it seems clear that religious liberty should win this one.
Another pre-election stay ruling from the Supreme Court.
Someone needs to remind the City of Houston that the First Amendment applies to them.
The Supreme Court has given the GOP a way out of a battle that they are going to lose anyway.
It appears that there will be no Federal charges against George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin. This is not a surprise.
The Supreme Court has issued a stay that will allow changes to Ohio’s early voting law to remain in effect for this year’s election. That was the correct decision.
Only one man can say that he has both recorded a jazz album with Lady Gaga and liberated a Nazi death camp.
One of last members of President Obama’s original cabinet is stepping aside.
The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.
A Federal Judge in Ohio has issued a very troubling ruling on that state’s early voting law.
There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?
What you think about the events in Ferguson depends quite a lot on whether you’re black or white.
17-year veteran of the LAPD says, “If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.”
A good law has one rather silly unintended consequence.
A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.
Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.
The NSA and FBI are doing more spy stuff.
The sad truth is that the bipartisanship that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 no longer exists today.
A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.
Once again, conservatives demonstrate how little they understand minority voters.
Justice delayed, but justice nonetheless.
Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.
Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.
The people are ready. Is the Supreme Court?
A great American writer has passed away.
Once again, Rand Paul is challenging conservative orthodoxy.
Continuing the discussion from earlier this week on hate crimes.
The Affirmative Action debate is too divisive and largely misses the point.
The Supreme Court may have just found a way to end the debate over Affirmative Action in education.
Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?
The CEO of Mozilla resigned today amid controversy over his position on same-sex marriage. The triumph of “political correctness,” or just the will of the marketplace?
Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.
Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.
Ellen Page is gay. So is Michael Sam. Shouldn’t we be aiming for the day when the response to news like this is “So what?”
The Cold War may be over, but the negative opinions in the U.S. regarding Russia and its leadership seem to have continued.
While I concur with the “intent, justice, legality, and morality” of the decision, I nonetheless oppose it.
A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.
Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.
Politics aside, the challenges to the PPACA’s birth control mandate raise important legal issues.
Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.
Fifty years after the Stand in the Schoolhouse door, there’s another standoff with recalcitrant states on civil rights.