Law

The Medicaid expansion portion of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act was most fundamentally a decision to reorder the relationship between the federal government and the states, a decision to subordinate the idea of nationhood to judge-made deference-to-states theory. Voters, we were told, were not savvy enough to figure out the respective roles of federal and state officials and apportion credit or blame accordingly.

With LSC funding effectively 70 percent lower than it was in 1981, the program is unable to meet critical needs of lower-income families.

Cities’ use of “spatial tactics” such as exclusion zones at upcoming political conventions and NATO summit risks muffling dissent, critics say.

As the Supreme Court looks ready to restrict or eliminate race-based affirmative action in its 2012-13 session, supporters of such preferences have a tool not yet deployed: race-based affirmative action as a means to compensate for the disproportionately negative impact of current-day "legacy admissions" policies on minority applicants.

Will advances in artificial intelligence result in cheaper and more effective ways to hold back incriminating evidence?