1996—One reason that the Ninth Circuit is so dysfunctional is that it fails to make responsible use of its en banc procedures to override panel rulings that conflict...
Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The event and its consequences shift their shape. Sometimes the story seems to be about killing someone with a golf ball. Sometimes it is about adult men who take sexual advantage of […]
There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are violating international law if they refuse to legalize or expand abortion. How did a right that nations never negotiated become one that international institutions now claim governments are obligated to uphold? […]
Every August and September, parents face a familiar ritual: purchasing school supplies, meeting teachers, and filling out a thick stack of medical forms. For decades, the mandatory immunization checklist was the most predictable part of this routine. School nurses filed the records away, classrooms opened, and the system functioned without much noise. The post-COVID-19 era […]
California was one of the last places in the world to join the “global economy,” but upon its discovery, the bounty of the “California Current” was plundered at record speed. In Tin Can Coast, author Joseph Ogilvy looks at the human and environmental history of the Golden State’s waters and the long succession of boom-and-bust […]
The first time Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, arrived in the United States in 1777, the defining characteristic of both the French nobleman and the new nation for which he’d come to fight was their paucity of years, the one but a babe and the other barely more than […]
Over many years, I’ve met a great many seniors. One man was paid 25 cents per day as a plowboy during the Great Depression. He was paid 50 cents per day during harvest season. Another man, Russel, flew 54 missions as a turret gunner in an A-20 Havoc bomber over Germany during World War II. […]
I have been reading Tocqueville again lately, prompted by our nation’s semiquincentennial celebrations. Looking at where we are today, it is hard not to wonder: if Alexis de Tocqueville showed up in 2026, would he recognize modern America? More importantly, would he bet on us to last another 250 years? I believe he would judge […]
Two facts now sit in plain sight in the declassified record. Communist China entered the 2020 election with an integrated arsenal capable of shaping an American presidential contest. And officials inside our own intelligence community worked, in their own written words, to strip that intelligence of its election relevance, fragment it, delay it, and in […]
Three weeks from now, the War Department owes Congress a report that could matter far beyond the Pentagon. Section 1512 of the fiscal 2026 defense authorization law requires a comprehensive review of how the department secures artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems, with findings due by Aug. 31. The law asks for current practices, identified gaps, […]
Next month marks one year since Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while giving a speech at Utah Valley University. In the 12 months since, a bronze statue of Kirk has been sculpted for Times Square. Congress designated his birthday a National Day of Remembrance. More than 100,000 people attended his memorial at State Farm […]
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated multiple provisions of a 2021 legally contested Texas election integrity law that, among other things, created an ID requirement for mail-in ballots and applications. A lower court blocked those changes in March.
