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It’s hard to remember that there was a Republican presidential nominating contest last year, but it really did happen. The reason it is so easy to forget is that the front-runner and inevitable ...

Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state.

Forty-six United States lawmakers are urging the federal court to allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public ...

War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young ...

America at 250 could look at the best examples of public service—public service in which the governmental institution expired ...

Ukraine’s present struggle is rooted in five centuries of shifting borders and fallen empires. As negotiations loom, leaders must decide how much of Ukrainian land they are willing to bargain away ...

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() - Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, ...

Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by 46 members of Congress.

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the ...

Even beyond the pendulum lurches between presidencies, many of the perennial debates over education policy, politics, and ...