After the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, can Donald Trump still be tried for Jan. 6?
Harry Litman The Supreme Court ended a tumultuous term with one final sledgehammer blow. Its decision on Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal charge...
The Supreme Court just gave itself a lot more power
Noah Feldman The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled the Chevron decision, a basic building block of administrative law, thereby striking a blow against the power ...
Too much screen time harms children, experts agree. So why do parents ignore them?
Jenny Gold Parents are bombarded with a dizzying list of orders when it comes to screen time and young children: No screens for babies younger than 18 months. L...
They found religion, decent burgers, and lasting friendships at a North Jersey truck stop
Jason Nark COLUMBIA, N.J. — Somewhere in this random, run-of-the-mill truck stop full of things truckers need, like CB radios and corned beef hash, and stuff ...
Only Clarence Thomas is willing to give a gun to a domestic abuser
Noah Feldman Gun rights are not unlimited according to an 8-1 Supreme Court decision that draws back from the extreme Second Amendment decision the court made t...
The Biden-Trump debate will be a demolition derby. But will it change the race?
Doyle McManus This week’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump won’t produce much in the way of civil dialogue over the nation’s future. It...
The Kid Whisperer: How to prepare your teen to save money for college
Scott Ervin Dear Kid Whisperer, My daughter is 16. She says that she wants to go to college, and we have told her that we will give her $4 for every dollar she ...
Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
F. Willis Johnson In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District...
This Marine dropped out of school at 17. At 72, he’s fulfilling his promise to his mom to graduate.
Kristen A. Graham PHILADELPHIA — Call him the Rip van Winkle of Benjamin Franklin High: Joseph Bond dropped out of high school at age 17, as war raged in Viet...
Infrastructure requires money. More toll roads are the way.
Thomas Black Physical infrastructure — highways, bridges, ports, internet servers, potable water — provides the backbone of an economy, even in an increasin...