Just over a year ago, I sat down after the Boston Marathon bombings and tried to make sense of the day. It was the darkest day in recent...

In my fifth column for BPR, back in October 2012, I wrote about the Supreme Court striking down campaign finance laws. Last week, the...

The year President George W. Bush left office Jane Mayer published “The Dark Side,” a scathing, revelatory piece on the Bush...

The Political Theory Project, in collaboration with Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) present an Odyssey Lecture with “Freeway”...

Hello readers! I know that the unseasonably cold weather might be getting you down, but I come bearing good news. This past Wednesday,...

Hello from Arlington! There might be snow on the ground, but it is indeed late March — and that means that the Supreme Court has finally...

There are more gun-inflicted suicides than gun-inflicted homicides in the United States and have been since the Center for Disease...

Ed Rosenthal, well-known marijuana legalization activist. The Emerald Triangle has been looking more brown than green recently. With...

Hello readers, and happy “Spring Forward”! This week I’d like to discuss a case that deals with some very sensitive issues — namely,...

“I feel my whole body burning,” were Michael Lee Wilson’s last words in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on January 9. Seven days later,...

By Ian Tarr On March 3, 2005, Albert Florence’s wife was driving her husband and their child down a New Jersey road. Unexpectedly, the...

Hello readers, and welcome to the coldest March that I’ve experienced in some time. The federal government was closed on Monday because...

On his first day in office in January 2009, President Obama promulgated a number of executive orders that fulfilled various campaign...

A recent episode of WBUR radio’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook discussed a major new policy debate: can big food be sued in the way big...

Hello, readers! Just a short update this week as we wait for the Supreme Court to hear more cases. First, in case you missed the breaking...

Since I first wrote about the U.S. government’s (“USG”) bulk collection of telephony metadata in September, public understanding of the...

On Monday, Judge Bruce Selya spoke at the Watson Institute in an event titled “The View from Inside the FISA Courts.” Selya is a federal...

As Angela Merkel knows, United States authorities have a tricky relationship with phone privacy. After revelations of ongoing tapping of...

On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and...

Hello readers! I hope that, despite Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, you’re keeping warm and reading up on...