The one overriding theme of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has been haste, and the three new allegations of sexual... Read More

The rule of law is our nation's greatest strength. We have confidence in our institutions when rules are applied fairly and consistently in... Read More

President Trump's recent criticisms of Google for bias against him have empowered fringe voices that have long... Read More

Who says there is no bipartisanship in the age of Trump? When it comes to federal deficits and debt, the parties have never been more... Read More

The Supreme Court is an unusual institution, because it somehow manages to be both majestic and intimate.The court is housed in a marble... Read More

Margaret Thatcher is said to have quipped, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.”... Read More

The Economist magazine is marking its 175th birthday with a special issue that looks back on its history and speculates about the... Read More

A professional athlete in trouble with the law is not always front-page news anymore, but the case of Mychal Kendricks stands out from the... Read More

George Alvarez spent four years in a Texas prison because a jail guard lied. The guard told prosecutors that the 17-year-old teenager had... Read More

It's silly season down on the farm, with journalists, juries, cities, states, and the whole continent of Europe striving to outdo each other... Read More

One of the pretenses of right-wing energy policy is that conservatives support a “level playing field,” upon which energy sources... Read More

The polls vary but the trend is disappointingly clear: Capitalism is falling out favor with certain segments of the population,... Read More

Brett Kavanaugh's primary and most plausible defense against the charge that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford was that Brett... Read More

The cynics — or, perhaps more precisely, the realists — believed that the Democrats were playing for time in the hopes of finding... Read More

In his trade war with China, President Donald Trump appears to have the upper hand. The new tariffs his administration unveiled this... Read More

The White House has dug itself into a hole on trade with China, and there's little prospect of getting out before 2019. Threats aside, both... Read More

Elizabeth Warren's “Accountable Capitalism Act” promises the most radical shift in economic power since the New Deal. It contains... Read More

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump took credit for thrusting the issue of immigration onto the national stage. And... Read More

To hear President Trump and his economics team tell the story, the U.S. economy was in shambles until they came along to fix it. The falsity... Read More

Amazon probably wanted its latest new product presentation to be exciting. Instead, it scared me.The products Amazon is rolling out... Read More

The White House took a first step this week to fulfill President Donald Trump's campaign pledge to launch “crippling,... Read More

There were about 14.8 million workers in unions in 2017, some 10.7% of the workforce, down about half from 20.1% in 1983. In the... Read More

In June's primaries, Maine became the first state to use ranked choice voting in a statewide election.First proposed in 2001 and adopted... Read More

In coming decades, the world's most affluent societies will invest trillions of dollars on new infrastructure — sea walls, smart grids,... Read More