Linda Charnes is Professor of English, European Studies, and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Using and misusing quotations from Shakespeare’s characters is a perennial problem. (The Bard didn’t hate attorneys.) Kudos to Judge Beryl Howell, in the Perkins Coie case, for getting it right.
The Constitution is occasionally amended and continually interpreted, and it still offers hope for the future.
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Despite the president’s claim that climate change is a hoax, a carbon tax could help him restore many of the tariffs he imposed last year should the justices strike them down.
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The so-called Great Health Care Plan would do next to nothing to lower overall costs or premiums paid by individuals, families, and employers.
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Now they’re going after Americans who are also citizens of another country—like me, and Melania and Barron Trump.
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Presidential campaign strategist David Plouffe calls for a Democratic overhaul to survive 2030 Census changes to the Electoral College map, but demographic shifts really threaten the GOP.
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The right wants to erase unpleasant history, while the left talks of nothing else. Is there a middle ground?
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Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig explains a promising new strategy to stop the surge of dark money in politics.
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