In November, the United States Supreme Court adopted a Code of Conduct. It’s a list of suggested, not required, ethical dos and don’ts for the...
When the sun rose over the Capitol on Oct. 25, 2023, Mike Johnson was a backbencher, an unknown-to-most-people congressman from Louisiana. By that...
The facts are startling. In December 2019, after Zackey Rahimi and his girlfriend, identified in court papers as “CM,” got into an argument in a...
This time it really matters. I’m not saying that the federal indictment in Florida — which accuses Trump of absconding with and hiding national...
Here we go again. Last June the Supreme Court overruled a half-century of precedent and repealed the right to abortion. This June, the court again...
For me, and probably for you, the bromides began in grade school, and continued after that — the faith our teachers shared in the genius and...
In March, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts struck down as unconstitutional the town of Southborough’s Civility Code, which required that...
Last year for my birthday my brother, Jeff, gave me “Once More Around the Park,” a collection of stories by Roger Angell, who has been described as...
I keep thinking about Tyre Nichols. And the depravity of the five Memphis cops who killed him. The videos show that this 29 year-old Black man...
Rick Singer was, in the government’s words, “the architect of a massive, decades-long scheme to use fraud and bribery to secure the admission of...
If you believe that recent Supreme Court decisions jeopardize both liberty and democracy, you’re right. If you think the worst is over, you’re...
On Nov. 22, 1963, I was sitting in my eighth grade art class when some adult knocked on the door and told us that President Kennedy had been shot...