You probably know eHarmony.com. Their commercials are everywhere. They’re the dating service that promotes itself based on compatibility and long-term commitment. They’re also notorious for…
I was baffled when I first learned that Sen. Ted Stevens, the newly defeated seven-term incumbent Senator from Alaska, could continue to serve in the…
The LA Times had a speculative piece this weekend on who President-elect Barack Obama would choose to nominate for the Supreme Court if a vacancy…
Not that I really thought an underwater creature would triumph over the United States military, but today’s Supreme Court decision is still a bummer. The…
In First Amendment news, the Supreme Court is preparing to consider a case which will decide whether government (at all levels) is required to permit…
Yesterday The New York Times ran an in-depth article by Charlie Savage on the Bush administration’s impact on the nation’s federal appeals courts. The whole…
The US imports more oil from Nigeria than it does from Iraq. Yet Nigeria, and the myriad human rights and environmental abuses associated with oil…
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to hear Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak at my campus. Seemingly everyone I know at Princeton packed…
Dana Goldstein over at TAPPED points to some ads being run about the Amendment 48 ballot initiative in Colorado–most commonly referred to as the “personhood…
Over at Campus Progress today we have an article from Michael Corritore, an editor of the Brown Contemporary (one of our Campus Publications Networks publications),…
Via Think Progress, Sarah Palin on amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage:
[I]n my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority…
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner about the status of newly registered voters in Ohio. The state has…
Reuters:
The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage on Friday in a victory for gay-rights advocates that will allow couples to marry…
During a lecture she gave in mid-September at UC Berkeley entitled “The Mystery of Guantánamo Bay,” former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse…
Cigarettes kill people. We have known this for decades. Light cigarettes are no exception. They have the same warnings on the packs as unfiltereds.
When…
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