The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.
Unlike previous civil rights changes, this one came without much fanfare, fight, or even discussion.
Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.
One week after the Brexit vote, both the Conservative and Labour parties find themselves in chaos.
Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.
When it comes to the protections of the Fourth Amendment, it doesn’t matter if you’re “guilty” or “innocent,” it protects all of us.
Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.
Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.
Backers of the losing candidate for the Democratic nomination are surprised that they’re not getting their way.
As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.
An N.F.L. defensive legend has passed away at the age of 82.
The Marine Corps has removed the word “man” from nineteen of its military occupation specialty titles, leaving only a handful of iconic instances intact.
The Los Angeles Times breaks what seems like a non-scandal.
Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.
One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.
The final major piece of the negotiations between the FARC and the Colombian government appears to be in place.
In overturning former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction, the Supreme Court has sent a powerful message to overly zealous prosecutors.
Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.
The Supreme Court has handed down a major abortion rights ruling that reaffirms the central reasoning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and makes it less likely that Roe will ever be overturned.
The Supreme Court at its best and therefore its most frustrating.
Given the consequences of a Brexit, one wonders why the referendum didn’t require more than just a simple majority to pass.
Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.
George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely
Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.
The Supreme Court balances the Fourth Amendment against public safety concerns and, for the most part, gets it right.
Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.
In a somewhat surprising opinion from Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s race-based admissions program.
A British political scientist lays out some of the political and institutional factors that will be relevant going forward.
By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.
The Financial Crisis was not a problem of macroeconomics, but a cluster of microeconomic problems all acting together.
Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.
The trial of the man who was believed to be the most culpable in the death of Freddie Gray has been acquitted, calling the entire prosecution strategy into question.
Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to reverse a quarter century trend.
A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.
Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.
Voters in the United Kingdom are headed to the polls in a vote that will have widespread consequences.
Marco Rubio changes his mind, and drops the first hint that he’s already thinking about the Presidential race in 2020 or 2024.
The Supreme Court has once again issued a ruling that further chips away at the protections of the Fourth Amendment.
Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.