There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.