Marion city police and the Marion County sheriff’s office did something on Friday that no government agency in America has any right to do.  They shut down a newspaper.  Those agencies raided the offices of…

Abortion wasn’t directly on the ballot in Tuesday’s special election in Ohio, but it might as well have been. Voters resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have changed the requirements for amending the state constitution,…

Justice Elena Kagan provided a description of the Supreme Court this week that should go without saying but, judging by recent events, needs hammering home: “We’re not imperial.” Her comments about the importance of an…

The world hardly needs another reminder of the true nature of Vladimir Putin’s Russian state, but last week brought one anyway: On Friday the opposition figure Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in prison…

Mental health parity has been a political applause line for more than three decades. And it’s been federal law since 1996, when President Bill Clinton signed the Mental Health Parity Act, a statute whose obligations…

As the walls close in on Donald Trump and the GOP squabbles over spending, House Republicans are flirting with the idea of an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. At least one of them isn’t…

If you physically try to stop a police officer from doing his or her job, you’re likely to be arrested. You could be preventing officers from stopping a serious crime or even saving a life.…

The Teamsters, as always, are delivering the goods, this time in the form of a labor agreement with UPS as a potential strike threatened to shut down deliveries that undergird large parts of the American…

The human body can barely cope with weather this hot. In Phoenix, where the asphalt can hit 180, emergency-room doctors are zipping heat-stroke victims into body bags full of ice. Tens of thousands worldwide die…

In a surprising but welcome about-face, Gov. Glenn Youngkin is pushing Republicans to embrace early voting in the upcoming General Assembly races. Youngkin helped launch a new website called Secure Your Vote Virginia, a voter…