California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral ...

The United States Constitution vests all legislative powers in Congress. Yet, over the past century, we’ve witnessed a disturbing trend of legislators increasingly delegating much of the authority to set the laws that govern the land to the executive branch, which includes unelected ...

In 1947, legendary baseball star and Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, becoming the first Black athlete to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Before that, he and his fellow Black athletes were relegated to the Negro ...

I have before me a “traffic summons” from my city’s police department. It features three pictures, two of the back of my car and a close-up of the license plate. “Please take notice,” it reads, “that the vehicle described and pictured herein was detected and recorded by an ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Supreme Court, like the country, is deeply divided along partisan and ideological lines. But this overlooks the court’s historic recent run of unanimous decisions and the fact that the liberal and conservative justices often don’t vote as blocs. Court ...

Speaking to my father on Father’s Day, he looked back on his boyhood in Madison, Wisconsin, to the time his father died when he was 8 — just weeks before the Pearl Harbor calamity. His mother, Marie, a nurse, found herself with four children to raise under their Spooner Street ...