The Trump administration this week will make its official declaration of the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency, and President Trump will speak Thursday on combating the epidemic, reports Axios.com. The president will sign an executive order directing cabinet agencies to take actions...
In 1991, soon after he was sentenced to 56 years in an Ohio prison for a crime he did not commit, Roger Dean Gillispie began pestering fellow inmates to save the tinfoil from their tobacco pouches. He also gathered discarded teabags and cassette tapes—anything he...
Political analyst Henry Olsen has written an iconoclastic portrait of a man conservatives thought they knew: Ronald Reagan. Olsen, a veteran of several conservative think tanks in Washington, D.C., is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who writes frequently for National...
Torrey McNabb’s execution was stayed twice before he was put to death with middle fingers literally raised in Alabama last Thursday, reports Al.com. Convicted of the 1997 murder of Montgomery police officer Anderson Gordon, McNabb did not express any remorse for the shooting that landed...
When I heard that my UCLA colleague John Villasenor conducted a survey on college student attitudes toward freedom of expression, I asked him if he could pass along some thoughts on the subject, and he very graciously did. Here’s John’s take: The last month or so...
Can’t afford a vacation or can’t get the time off of work to explore the world? Maybe there’s another way to transport yourself… without actually transporting yourself at all. In this episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss virtual and...
Christopher Wray, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says one of his top priorities is to improve diversity in the bureau’s ranks, the Wall Street Journal reports. “The reality is we are very focused on trying to make sure our workforce better...
Readers of Law and Liberty may have noticed that I am a fan of Justice Antonin Scalia (for example, here and here). I am also an admirer of Robert H. Bork, whom my colleague John McGinnis has described as “the most important legal scholar on...
For The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that Chief Justice John Roberts has met with criticism for suggesting during the oral argument in partisan-gerrymandering case Gill v. Whitford “that forcing the court to make … decisions” about “when normal politics became unconstitutional bias” “would put...
American grit was once thought permanent. With the right stuff, a single person with a few kindred spirits could find salvation, start a business, run for office, or settle the frontier. Alexis de Tocqueville famously described that practical, spirited American as “plunging into the wilderness...