9+ hour, 42+ min ago  (291+ words) The novelist Michael Connelly has given us some memorable characters over the years—the no-nonsense Harry Bosch, the quick-thinking and fast-talking Mickey Haller, and the intrepid cold-case-cracking Renée Ballard. Now we have a new cop in Connelly's crime-fiction world—Detective…...

9+ hour, 40+ min ago  (177+ words) John Roberts kicks ass. The chief justice's supremely magisterial end-of-term majority opinion in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, powerfully vindicated the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment. Roberts's impressive historical analysis left the lead dissenter, Justice Clarence Thomas, looking like…...

9+ hour, 41+ min ago  (174+ words) But the renowned legal scholar Richard Epstein disagrees vehemently, and in The Myth of Birthright Citizenship, he mounts a timely, quixotic challenge to the conventional wisdom: timely, because President Trump issued an executive order last year purporting to curtail birthright…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (262+ words) The appropriations bills passed by the state’s House of Representatives over the past three sessions included a line item for "transgender healthcare" within the budget for the Department of Corrections. Rutinel, a state representative, joined his fellow Democrats to vote…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (297+ words) Socialist Democrat Melat Kiros, who is set to represent Denver in Congress next year, said U.S. leaders need to "tone that temperature down" and "prevent" antisemitic violence—by "reevaluating our relationship with Israel." "And this kind of hatred for the state…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (329+ words) Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed spent most of his primary debate against Rep. Haley Stevens railing against Israel. He blamed the Jewish state for problems ranging from U.S. artificial intelligence policy to the national debt to the state of the…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (1024+ words) Tom Bower is the only celebrity biographer who does his job properly. All his biographies are unauthorized, from his first essay in the form, the life of the Nazi sadist Klaus "Butcher of Lyon" Barbie, to his latest, Betrayal, on…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (274+ words) It is a good question why this proprietor of a Virginia plantation with some 300 slaves decided to risk everything by leading revolution against the world's most powerful empire. Brands finds an answer, partly in Washington's character, but also in his…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (357+ words) In December 1818, an 83-year-old John Adams—slow of step and weak of sight—was ushered into Boston’s Faneuil Hall to behold John Trumbull’s now-legendary painting of the presentation of the Declaration of Independence. The former president was said to have…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (612+ words) The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard turned Louisiana lawmaker said he agreed with her desire to keep the bloodlines pure. "Well, I think that people have the right to preserve their particular heritage," Duke told the Washington Free Beacon…...