This week, the Supreme Court of the United States is confronting yet again an issue that has bedeviled it for the past 30 years: the use of racial quotas by…

Last week, the government announced that it does not want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his colleagues whom it claims are the remaining conspirators of the attacks…

“Congress shall make no law abridging … the freedom of speech.” — First Amendment to the Constitution The iconic language of the First Amendment can be recited by schoolchildren, yet…

Last week, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed authority to kill persons in other countries, so long as the CIA and its military counterparts have “near…

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, Mankind would be no more justified In silencing that one person, Than he, if he had the power, Would be justified…

When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, many of us who believe that the Fourth Amendment means what it…

Watching the unprecedented, forced removals of immigrants from Texas to New York City, Martha’s Vineyard and the District of Columbia, I thought that my grandparents were fortunate to have entered…

Under pressure from the governors of New York and California and their enormous state pension funds, Visa, Mastercard and American Express have agreed to keep a list of commercial transactions…

Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I’ll be watching you. — “Every Breath You Take,” Song by The Police…

It gives me no joy to write this piece. Even a cursory review of the redacted version of the affidavit submitted in support of the government’s application for a search…