What Did Holmes Know About Language That We Don't?
Still more lessons on good writing from the masters.
Still more lessons on good writing from the masters.
Next stop, the U.S. Supreme Court?
She would still be alive if politicians did not insist on using violence to enforce their pharmacological prejudices.
Harvard's Roland Fryer argues both Left and Right misunderstand or misrepresent the empirical evidence
What would happen, I wonder, if protesters decide to set up an autonomous zone in the Twitter parking lot?
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is creating a task force to crackdown on the sale and use of illegal fireworks.
The legal doctrine frequently allows police officers to violate your rights without fear of civil liability.
Public health officials have squandered their credibility
The problem isn’t just that cops look like occupying soldiers, it’s that too many think and act like them.
Making the correct legal argument would have cast doubt on other elements of immigration law, and the acting DHS Secretary refused to say that DACA was a bad policy
A dispatch from the Black House Autonomous Zone
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Deep ranks of enforcers with expansive powers and wide-ranging responsibilities will always pose a risk to the public, no matter which level of government employs them.
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The information in the no-knock warrant application was based purely on guilt by association.
These reforms would protect all Americans while reducing racial disparities in policing.
Police unions exist to protect cops at the expense of the public.
The legislation rolls back regulations that have been shielding bad police from accountability.
The department says the officer "displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life" when he "blindly fired 10 rounds" into Taylor's apartment.
Interactions between the public and the police should be kept to a minimum.
Police officers shouldn't be above the law.
Their illegal search was not recorded.
A white mayor is pursuing a racially fraught investigation of a black man for hanging exercise straps in a park. What could go wrong?
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Everybody is talking about changing law enforcement, but not all proposals are equally worthy—or serious.
Police strategies have changed dramatically in the past few decades—and not because of soaring crime. America's War on Drugs is a prime culprit.
Frederick Douglass: "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
Reason showed how Chicago's impound program traps innocent owners in thousands of dollars of debt in 2018.
The felony murder charge against Garrett Rolfe hinges on whether he reasonably believed Brooks posed a threat.
The harsh laws covered large swaths of Tennessee's cities in enhanced sentencing zones and locked away minor drug offenders for years.
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"The original meaning of the constitution binds us as a matter of the rule of law. Its restraint on our power cannot depend on whether we agree with its current application on policy grounds. Such a commitment to originalism would be no commitment at all. It would be a smokescreen for the outcomes that we prefer."
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
The rapper, whose real name is Darell Caldwell, is speaking out about his lyrics and videos being used against him in a murder trial.
Cops have a long history of thinking fast food workers are out to get them.
The bill would incentivize police to ban chokeholds and create a national use-of-force database.
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One need not believe every cop is a bigot to recognize that the problem goes beyond a few "bad apples."
That uniform rule is different from the policies favored by Donald Trump and House Democrats.
Donald Trump didn't start the protests, but the fires he's stoking will scorch the nation and discredit the conservative movement.
It does not touch qualified immunity or police unions.
I wouldn't have expected abortion politics there ....
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