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Seven years ago, police in Midlothian, Virginia, sought to identify a bank robber by asking Google to search the records…

Bradley Greeff | Dreamstime.com As a recent Boston Globe article explains, the Trump Administration is trying to deport Russian dissenters…

Do you want to know the good news about the minimum wage? In most parts of the country, it is…

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Keep your shirt on this week—going shirtless will not help you…

The man who attacked Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was targeting “administration officials,” including President Donald Trump, according…

Republican politicians love to talk a good fiscal conservatism game, but they’ve been quick to throw out their penny-pinching playbooks…

Secret Service agents reportedly subdued a gunman Saturday at the Washington Hilton hotel, during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association…

Today, the Supreme Court issued a very unusual order in a very unusual case. In late November, a three-judge panel…

Harvard magazine reports on recent comments by retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the “shadow docket.” Although Justice Breyer…

From Manhattan trial judge Judy Kim in Rodney’s Comedy Club v. Omari, decided April 17 but just posted on Westlaw…

A plaque on the Statue of Liberty features Emma Lazarus’s words urging the world to “give me your tired, your…

Among other things, Otis responds to my post from yesterday; an excerpt: The main criterion in a democratic system is…