Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees “the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies,” he says in a new memoir. By Jennifer Szalai A softball question, and Robert Bork was out. By ...

1976—By a 5-4 vote, the Court rules in Singleton v. Wulff that two abortionists challenging limitations on Medicaid funding of abortion have standing to assert not only their own rights but also the ...

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump over the weekend laid down a controversial, across-the-board tariff against China. One aspect of Trump’s ongoing crackdown on trade with China may have ...

Gary Lawson and I have just published an intellectual biography of former Attorney General Ed Meese, which argues that Ed Meese is the most influential person ever to hold the office of U.S. attorney ...

One of the most important speeches of the Reagan presidency was not delivered by the Great Communicator himself. In the summer of 1985, Edwin Meese III—confirmed a few months earlier as the Reagan ...

1987—Culminating an unprecedented campaign of lies, distortions, and vilification, the Senate rejects, by a vote of 58 to 42, President Reagan’s nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to fill the Supreme ...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 23, the 297th day of 2024. There are 69 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most ...

Americans and the media are preoccupied with the 2024 presidential race. Down-ballot contests are treated like stepchildren. Why? Most voters believe the White House is the giant oak and all other ...

The defenders of judicial activism, properly understood as the judicial usurpation of politics, count on wearing down their critics over time. Robert H. Bork is not easily worn down. He returns to the ...

MCLEAN Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural ...

As U.S. businesses struggle with inflationary pressures, Chinese online retailers Shein and Temu are gaining market share among American consumers despite accusations they sell substandard products ...