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So now Republican state legislators want to deny women insurance coverage for abortions, even those willing to pay for a special rider with their own dollars. You would think abortion is illegal, or that everyone in the country holds the ...

More than a billion people around the world look to the tiniest nation on the planet for guidance. It occupies less than a quarter-square mile and contains fewer than 1,000 residents, yet has all the privileges of an independent fully ...

While no arm is left untwisted, no parliamentary maneuver ignored on Capitol Hill, state legislatures have been busy themselves passing laws to defeat whatever health-care package emerges. Idaho wants no part of any overhaul dreamed up in Washington. Neither does ...

If a surgeon cuts open your chest and implants a device meant to shock your heart into beating regularly, you are counting on the thing not short-circuiting. You assume every aspect of its manufacture, each change in the process, has ...

In these poor economic times, there is one endeavor that offers unlimited opportunities for employment: defending the debt-rating companies in court. It won’t make you popular. But there has got to be a demand for lawyers willing to stand up ...

Liz Cheney, meet John Adams. Perhaps you have heard of him. A founding father of our nation, he became America’s first vice president and its second president. But before all that, back when he was practicing law in Boston, Adams ...

In the rash of white-collar prosecutions that followed the rash of accounting scandals in 2001 and 2002, no conviction was as welcome as those of Enron Corp.’s top two executives. Before Bernard Madoff jumped to the top of America’s most-hated ...

Second Amendment fans were at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that the constitutionally protected right to bear arms should kill Chicago’s gun law. The court will probably do just that. But Chicago’s ban on handguns, along with one ...

Distracted while thinking how to begin this column, I clicked on an e-mail from a friend. She had sent me a YouTube video in which a tidy cylindrical shape on a shoulder strap unrolled to become a computer. Almost every ...

U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff really, really, really wanted to toss out a $150 million settlement between Bank of America Corp. and federal regulators this week. He called the agreement “half-baked justice,” “inadequate and misguided” even as he ...

A Somali convicted of attempted murder wants the verdict tossed out, claiming his prosecutor wrote unkindly about his nationality on her Facebook page during the trial. A high school honors student gets suspended for calling a teacher the “worst ever” ...