Trump and Trial Lawyers Target Drug Companies Over Opioid Addiction
Making drug-company shareholders foot the bill for a public health crisis is flaky and counterproductive.
Making drug-company shareholders foot the bill for a public health crisis is flaky and counterproductive.
Senators want to use secret, largely unaccountable government watchlists as a justification for denying some citizens' due process.
Since the accessories are legal, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is helping the president rewrite the law.
The bill makes "promoting prostitution" a federal crime, holds websites legally liable for user-posted content, and lets states retroactively prosecute offenders.
It's more about sending a message to Congress
Even entry-level jobs that allow someone to test out the profession have to be filled by licensed professionals.
A controversial medical examiner, exaggerated testimony, and bad forensics branded Jeffrey Havard a rapist and a baby killer.
Argues that secret wiretap authorizations were not abused.
Poor people are likely to make better food choices for themselves than the government.
"Time is truly of the essence here," said a lawyer for women imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail.
Top public school officials will risk their careers to have school choice. Maybe they should let everyone else have it too.
In California's Santa Rita Jail, pregnant inmates were pressured to have abortions, forced to go without food, and made to live in unsanitary conditions, a new lawsuit alleges.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concluded that the ban violates the First Amendment because it is intended to discriminate against Muslims.
"If General Sessions wanted to be involved in marking up this legislation, maybe he should have quit his job and run for the Republican Senate seat in Alabama."
And, weirdly, grocery store cronyism might be the thing that stops it.
Whatever else the Trump Administration is (or is not) doing, it continues to announce excellent judicial nominees for federal appellate courts - while showing it's capable of working with Democratic Senators.
No robots need apply.
Trump's awful rhetoric is a menace to liberty - even when it does not lead to any immediate action.
Trump says he's inclined to do so, but letter expresses concerns about "sensitive passages."
The new two-year budget deal will result in a $1 trillion deficit.
"The real problem is that we spend way more money than we take in. We have to address that."
As we prepare for a new "era of limits," Democrats may need to reclaim their party's forgotten history of rolling back government.
When the feds interview a subject or target, their goal is not fact-finding or "clearing a few things up." Their goal is the hunt.
Our institutions are strong enough to restrain a president, but they're also strong enough to empower him.
Libertarians should listen to the second season of NPR's legal podcast. But maybe get a pillow to scream into first.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
Partisan politics is awful.
Meet the LAPD couple who made a cool $2 million off the city while hanging out at their condo in Cabo San Lucas.
The Senate confirmed a record number of federal appellate court nominees in 2017.
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have dreamed that 21st-century Americans would still be paying for pensions created under him.
Now that it's out, nobody's minds seem to have changed.
The drug regulator's clinical trials process for approving drugs needs a complete overhaul.
Nunes report claims Democratic Party-origins of Steele dossier concealed from court.
Friday A/V Club: Columnist, broadcaster, and critic of concentrated power
Trump has reviewed a document alleging FBI misconduct. It might be released Friday.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president's role in writing an ass-covering statement that was misleading but not illegal.
U.S. presidents like to go looking for dragons to slay.
The war will continue until further notice.
The president's comments adhered pretty closely to past statements but offered little added detail.
If a Republican president can't address a Republican-controlled Congress without paying lip service to the idea of cutting spending, what good are Republicans?
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch, and Peter Suderman take your questions.