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. […]