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via New York Times (Editorials), Real Clear Politics
On Wednesday, state lawmakers in Washington approved a bill allowing same-sex marriage . That outcome is a heartening sign of how far the politics and public understanding of ...
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via Ellen Miller, New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
The 112th Congress rode to office in 2010 on the biggest wave of unlimited, undisclosed corporate money that American politics has ever seen. That same Congress has hit a ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
Almost three years after UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank, paid a $780 million fine for helping Americans evade taxes and agreed to hand over the names of more than 4,500 ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
Even in the ultrapolarized atmosphere of Capitol Hill, it should be possible to secure broad bipartisan agreement on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, the 1994 law ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), Real Clear Politics, New York Times (Editorials)
A stubborn standoff is playing out this week between a nearly bankrupt Greece and the wrongheaded European partners it needs to pay its bills. The outcome is, sadly, ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
The first provision requires that members of the budding “political intelligence” industry — that sells information gleaned from private talks with lawmakers and ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
The list of outrages coming out of the House is long, but the way the Republicans are trying to hijack the $260 billion transportation bill defies belief. This bill is so ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
School reform advocates are rightly encouraged by new data showing that New York City students at small, specialized high schools are more likely to graduate than students in ...
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via Ellen Miller, Real Clear Politics, New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Most Emailed) ...
Two years ago, while delivering his State of the Union address, President Obama looked the Supreme Court justices in the face and told them they were wrong to have allowed ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
This nation still has a long way to go to overcome one of the great remaining barriers to full equality and fairness, but a federal appeals court panel brought it a big step ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
Last November, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the Federal District Court in Washington said that an investigation he ordered into prosecutorial misconduct in the case involving ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
More than 40,000 homeless people now spend the night in New York City shelters. Three-quarters of those are families, including about 17,000 children. Those numbers are about ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion), NewsRack (Energy), Real Clear Politics
President Obama usually deserves high marks for his efforts to curb the spread of dangerous nuclear technology. But his administration’s decision not to insist on an ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
If Americans are barred from suing the government for misconduct in a war zone, there would be no way to hold officials accountable for even gross violations of constitutional ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
On Monday, government forces using tanks and machine guns shelled a makeshift medical clinic and residential areas in Homs, a major center of protests. Since Friday, an ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
Republicans in Congress seem to have forgotten the embarrassment they suffered late last year for trying to block a payroll tax cut for millions of wage-earners. The two-month ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
Living alongside mice on the farm is natural, and they will be with us always.
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via New York Times (Editorials)
North Carolina courageously passed the Racial Justice Act in 2009, making it the first state in the country to give death row inmates a chance to have their sentences changed ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
There is hopeful news in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that gradually robs millions of older Americans of their memories and mental capacities ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), Real Clear Politics
It is only a first step toward healing the economy’s biggest open wound, but President Obama ’s new mortgage refinancing plan could provide considerable relief for ...
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via New York Times (Most Emailed), Memeorandum, New York Times (Editorials)
The way these cases developed and made their way to the highest court also illustrates the reverse — how politics shape the court. Each case grows out of a struggle between ...
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via Jeff Jarvis, New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
From book publishers like Macmillan to Hollywood studios like Disney, producers of content are deeply frustrated by the defeat of their efforts to curb online piracy in ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain ’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Most Emailed) ...
The Susan G. Komen foundation has lent its pink ribbon to an anti-abortion campaign by cutting off financing for breast cancer screenings done by Planned Parenthood.
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
The posturing and saber rattling from both Iran and Israel are getting frightening. Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz after the European Union and the United ...
