Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

A class action lawsuit backed by Joe Lieberman is challenging the excessive fees charged by PACER, the federal judiciary's electronic document system.

How the “supervised release” program pulls tens of thousands of former inmates back into prison without a fair trial