It’s hard to get a straight answer on the Affordable Care Act. Conversation on every component of the law is hugely partisan;...

Local currency movements have become a trend in local economic development initiatives.  These are currencies issued by a local entity...

Protest songs have always been an important mode of political discourse. Easily produced and disseminated, good protest songs and the...

Hello, readers! Welcome to part two of my Town of Greece v. Galloway coverage. Two weeks ago, I previewed the case and offered a crash...

In early October, “60 Minutes” aired a segment on the United States’ disability program. In many ways it was a “hatchet job,” as “The...

Carol Bond was initially thrilled when she learned her friend, Myrlinda Haynes, was pregnant. She was understandably a little less...

As an undergraduate, the FBI closing of the Silk Road anonymous marketplace may not affect you beyond your drug supply or your easy...

If you only watch one video this week, make it this one. Madison Kimrey, a 12-year-old from North Carolina, is already a force to be...

It is good to be back after last week’s live-blogging interlude. Only later did I come to know the real reason I was tasked for the...

As the leaves change color and the temperature drops, winter and the flu season are fast approaching. With the chill also comes the...

Hello, readers! I hadn’t expected to write about abortion this week, but after the Supreme Court dismissed Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition...

If Congress did nothing else effectively in October, it served as a fantastic nicotine patch (metaphorically speaking) for my Breaking...

On October 29th there were two events. At one, a New York City police commissioner was shouted down. The lecture hall in which he had...

Hello, readers! We have ahead of ourselves yet another week that’s devoid of Supreme Court oral arguments, so I figured now would be a...

Starting the Conversation on College Hill. The event is a discussion of the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court case and what...

While Washington has been wrangling with the shutdown and the largely synthetic debt ceiling crisis, a smaller but no less worrying debt...

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Kaley v. United States, a somewhat complicated but deeply consequential case on the scope...

When people do hold opinions about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), they tend to be strong ones. The ACA, more...

Hello, readers, and welcome to the middle of October! In case you missed it, on Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped his...

This past Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending the Common Cause dinner at the historic Rhodes on the Pawtuxet event hall. Common...