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August 25, 2014
Naomi Shavin
Our Government Has No Idea How Often Police Get Violent With Civilians
August 21, 2014
Brian Beutler
St. Louis Police Killed Kajieme Powell Because They Were Following Insane Rules
August 20, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
The Catholic Church Prefers Medieval Barbarism to Modern Abortion
August 18, 2014
Angela J. Davis
Justice for Michael Brown Rests Almost Entirely in the Hands of This One Man
August 11, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama Wants to Put Torture Behind Us, But It Still Haunts Guantanamo Every Single Day
August 10, 2014
Jason Zengerle
The New Racism
This is how the civil rights movement ends
August 8, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
Obama Is Right to Bomb Islamic Militants, But His Reasons Are Wrong
August 4, 2014
Eric A. Posner
Obama Is Legally Allowed to Enforce—or Not Enforce—the Law
Ross Douthat misunderstands the separation of powers
July 23, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Conservative Ruling Against Obamacare Is Legally Laughable
July 17, 2014
Danny Vinik
Chris Christie Admits He Ignored the Law to Help Tesla. Do Republicans Want to Sue Him, Too?
Why the GOP should cut Obama some slack on enforcing laws
July 10, 2014
Rebecca Leber
The Immigration Case Backlog Just Hit an All-Time High
July 4, 2014
Andrew Koppelman
The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby Decision Just Got a Whole Lot Worse
In an order Thursday prompted by Wheaton College, the Court abandoned its concern for women impacted by the ruling
July 1, 2014
Brian Beutler
The GOP's Religious Liberty Sham Is About to Blow Up Their Immigration Reform Excuse
June 30, 2014
Andrew Koppelman
The Hobby Lobby Decision Was a Victory for Women's Rights
June 30, 2014
Moshe Z. Marvit
The Supreme Court Has Created an Impossible Standard for Unions to Meet
The Harris v. Quinn decision may have done irreparable damage to a long-standing precedent
June 26, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Supreme Court's Abortion-Clinic Ruling Just Made Cops' Jobs Much Harder
The buffer-zone ruling will force a piecemeal approach from law enforcement
June 25, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Law Has Spoken: A Cellphone Is a Bedroom, Not a Pants Pocket
The Supreme Court rules that all cellphone searches require warrants
June 9, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama Promised to Close Gitmo. The Troop Withdrawal May Finally Force Him to Do So.
May 7, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
There's a Legal War Over the Definition of Rape
And Tiger Mom's husband has waded right into it
April 30, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Clayton Lockett's Botched Execution Adds Credibility to Court Fight Over Drug Secrecy

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