I thought I’d pass along an item I came across in the 1856 reminiscences of a Philadelphia lawyer (David Paul Brown, The Forum, or, Forty Years Full...
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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the morning of August 13, Paulo Cesar...
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Ah, the magical power of tuition checks. Trump defended his controversial plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Chinese students into the country on Monday...
Anyone who reads spy thrillers knows the importance of Five Eyes, the intelligence-sharing agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom took a sharp poke at the Orange Blob and all those who “bend the knee” to him by announcing the launch of a range of Signature...
The decision by some Democrats to embrace a deal to end a government shutdown without a guarantee of extending health care subsidies shocked conservative...
11/11/1975: Virginia State Bd. of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. argued.
The Burger Court (1975-1981)
If you followed last week’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s supposed power to impose tariffs without first...
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, by Sarah Weinman, Ecco, 320 pages, $32 A woman shows up at the...