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With each criminal conviction the state of New York matter-of-factly tells the defendants how long they will spend behind bars. Hidden from view, in t...

It might appear that sooner or later states legalizing the use of marijuana, contrary to federal law, will be crushed in federal courts. After all, fe...

For the first time since 1972 the number of people behind bars in American prisons and jails declined slightly to 2.2 million in 2015, down from 2.4 m...

If a dangerous street hoodlum demands and then flees with your wallet, the police will call that robbery. But, if a police officer seizes your cash, c...

Let’s count the ways in which the Republican Party’s nominee for president, Donald Trump, runs afoul of the expectations of the 18th century founders ...

Starting in the late 1800s state and federal legislatures began delegating their sovereign, eminent-domain, police powers to oil and gas pipeline comp...

James Madison declared way back in 1792 that in America, “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort … (and) … to secure to every man ...

In the 1960s civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama and elsewhere faced local police officers armed with hand-held batons, fire hoses, attack do...

History tells us that engineering advances not only solve problems, they also create new ones. The environmental problems created today by advanced na...