It’s amazing how American business, which sings the praises of  competition, so often tries to escape market competition when it comes to its own products.
The latest example is the boom in “minimum pricing” agreements between manufacturers and retailers. Under minimum…

Philosophers long have pondered what separates humans from the great apes with whom we share 95 percent or more of our DNA.
Is it the ability to make and use tools? To remember the past and plan for the future?…

Calls to amend the U.S. Consitution in more recent times typically have been the province of political conserviatives (Think flag burning, gay marriage, abortion. Exception: Equal Rights Amendment).

But now the Chicago Tribune’s editorial page has suggested that the 2nd Amendment…

A couple of years ago I had a chance to chat with Linda Greenhouse, the superb New York Times reporter who covers the Supreme Court.

She was giving a talk (for free) as featured speaker at a legal aid fund raiser…

Two hundred and seventeen years after the Second Amendment was ratified, the United States Supreme Court has decided what it means. To bear arms, it turns out, you don’t have to belong to a militia after all. In most places, it’s…

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal of a ruling by the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis that said Major League Baseball statistics are part of the public domain. Fantasy baseball fanatics around the world…

The Associated Press reports:

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away…