Esquire’s Charles Pierce recently wrote a post about our nation’s obsession with destiny and history. He charges us to count how often...

“Drunk people ran it better!” Or as Jack Sparrow might have said, “Where has all the bipartisanship and cross-party cooperation gone?” It...

“It is the Chinese water torture of a series of mass shootings that are happening more rapidly and are growing more deadly.” Mayors...

Let us turn to the legal questions posed by another of this summer’s intelligence disclosures, concerning data collection pursuant to...

Good morning, readers. What should I write about today? Oh, wait—it’s still September! And there is a veritable cornucopia of Supreme...

Prospective and current law school students around the country must have been overjoyed to hear President Obama’s remarks at Binghamton...

Earlier this year, The New Yorker’s George Packer wrote a brilliant piece about Silicon Valley’s slow entrance to politics. This was...

70-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera. Source: 80 grados. Creative Commons In a previous article, I wrote about the case of Puerto Rican...

Joey DeFrancesco became a short-lived Internet celebrity in 2011 after the then-24 year old posted a video of himself quitting his job at...

Last Tuesday, President Obama gave a national address from the East Room on the international crisis in Syria – taking, in the words of...

Oyez, oyez! Your second week of Supreme Court schooling is about to begin. For those of you who missed my explanation in last week’s...

Politicians like to downplay how effective the government is, constantly offering critiques for bureau chiefs, teachers, and other public...

Governor Lincoln Chafee took the political world by surprise last Wednesday, announcing his decision not to seek reelection in the 2014...

Welcome back, readers, and happy September! Regardless of whether one is returning to school, fall seems to mark a turning point in the...

Bill Belichick often implores his players to “ignore the noise.” Unfortunately, the noise surrounding this summer’s disclosures about the...

It appears we have had two wartime technology questions in the last few months. Both have left me with the same question: Why does the...

On YouTube, Defense Distributed (DD) can seem like a troop of disgruntled teenagers. Their first uploaded video features the heavy,...

The truth shall set you free, as the saying goes. As far as whistleblowing in  America is concerned, however, the truth seems to be doing...

Towns across America are hitting a troubling paradox in downtown revitalization: people do not want to move downtown until there is a...

In Philadelphia, workers recently finished sifting through debris for victims’ personal items; Sean Benschop has been charged with...