Louisiana Justice

So there is Al Sharpton, and here am I, crying in the truck while a man gets arrested. In Jena, Louisiana, the Rev. Sharpton [...]

What the Fifth is Taking

Carla Main gives the notion of eminent domain a personality and a persona, bringing humanity and a slap-you-into-reality perspective to the political debate over [...]

An Imaginary Crisis

Why read a book about tort “reform” four years after the Texas Legislature passed a sweeping rewrite of the state’s civil justice laws that [...]

Jim Hightower

The Bushites don’t much care that the number of Americans without health coverage has increased by 7 million since they’ve been in charge, including [...]

Political Intelligence

Hogs at the Trough The Ivory Tower is indeed gilded for the chiefs of American universities and colleges. Like their corporate counterparts, they are [...]