In a sharply-divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down provisions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act last week, setting the stage for a deluge of corporate spending in the 2010 mid-term elections. This landmark decision relaxes restrictions on corporations from funneling cash into political campaigns and extends rights once reserved for individuals to corporations…

When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed walks into a federal courtroom in the coming months, the American justice system will also be on trial. After years of the Bush administration subverting the justice system, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department would prosecute the self-avowed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in a New York courtroom…

On the eve of the doomed merger between Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, lawyers from both companies assembled at the midtown law offices of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Aside from the lawyers and a few janitors working the night shift, the building was mostly vacant…

Thousands of uninsured and underinsured Americans anxiously waited in lines that snaked around the Los Angeles Forum where Remote Area Medical units were providing routine medical care. Many of the people arrived at the Forum during the wee hours of the morning…

Draped in green banners and wearing surgical masks to hide their faces, the sea of protesters rallying against the perceived improprieties behind Iran’s election is a long-awaited sight, signaling a definite shift away from the brand of political Islam that has gripped Iran for nearly 30 years…

While distributing bulletins to congregants last Sunday at his church in Wichita, Kan., Dr. George Tiller, one of a few doctors in the United States that provided late-term abortions, was murdered. Historically, acts of violence against physicians have hindered the pro-life movement and increased the rancor surrounding issues of women’s rights…

Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s decision to walk away from the court at the end of its June term incited a wave of hyper-partisan acrimony last week in the nation’s capital. The soft-spoken judge was rarely, if ever, the center of turmoil but a vacant Supreme Court seat exposes the court’s role as a public policy player regardless of who the retiring justice happens to be…

The Texas State Board of Education decided last month that science teachers will be allowed to teach “all sides” of scientific theories in biology classes across Texas, proving once again that the Tree of Knowledge is not rooted in the Lone Star state. What looked like a conventional decision was actually a thinly veiled attempt to open the door for the teaching of creationism in science classrooms…

The smudged ink on the reader’s fingers, the rings of coffee stains on the paper, the tactile feeling of flipping through pages of daunting black print – For many people, reading a newspaper is a religious experience. However, the days of waking up to a cup of coffee and a copy of The New York Times (or The Daily Evergreen) are numbered…

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates outlined a plan last week that would curtail expensive military contracts and make the armed services’ procurement process more nimble for fighting unconventional wars, indicating a monumental shift in foreign policy and a reform of the defense department’s budget…

If someone believes the Democrats want to institute mandatory gay marriage, remove every gun from every home, convert each person to Islam and take money from hardworking Americans and give it to crack addicts in inner-city Detroit, they probably already have a program on Fox News…

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation last month abolishing the use of the death penalty, making New Mexico the 15th state to prohibit capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated the penalty. Recognizing that more than 130 death row inmates were exonerated in the past decade…

Financial institutions build empires, bankroll wars and act as the chains of poverty for billions of people. From the advent of the first coins to the creation of hedge funds, financial innovations spurred some of the greatest eras of human innovation and – at the same time – created wide disparities in the quality of life across the world…

Washington State University provides many opportunities for students to supplement their education outside the classroom. However, WSU’s inability to draw notable public speakers to campus and the Common Reading Program’s pitiful selection of books are preventing the facilitation of an engaging discourse on campus…

Attorney General Eric Holder set Washington, D.C., ablaze with controversy last month when he referred to America as “a nation of cowards” concerning matters of race. Hardly a radical, Holder invoked rhetoric more commonly heard from iconoclasts such as Spike Lee…