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In the years that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. officials debated internally how hurtful the pain, how humiliating the degradation, how frightening the sense of drowning that American interrogators could legally inflict on suspected enemies. The predictable ...

I got into this whole lawyer thing after a stint as a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Greene County, Ohio. I was also covering the courts and county government for the Xenia Daily Gazette there and got to know the ...

In the years that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. officials debated internally how hurtful the pain, how humiliating the degradation, how frightening the sense of drowning that American interrogators could legally inflict on suspected enemies. The predictable ...

There is one way to be sure that you are complying precisely with U.S. tax law: read the entire code. Problem is, it currently contains about 3.4 million words. That’s like reading “War and Peace” six times. If you did ...

This may be as close as we’re going to get to a Fed chairman labeling some in Congress as irresponsible. Sure, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was typically careful with his wording in a Jan. 13 speech in London. ...

That’s enough of the hype. Today, new U.S. President Barack Obama needs to roll up his sleeves and start getting on with the hard slog of saving the economy from the mess that has been made. At least in Europe, ...

It’s one thing for Barack Obama to begin his presidency with a call to rebuild the economy. It’s another to get the bulldozers moving. About $30 billion of Obama’s $825 billion economic stimulus plan is being set aside for highways ...

My senses and spirit tingled with the pure energy of possibility when I was in Chicago on Election Day on Nov. 4, 2008. So much history was being made. Hope was in the air, shared by millions. That golden moment ...

If you haven’t already done so, NOW IS THE TIME to set goals for 2009. You’ve heard it many times before: The most successful people know that one of the secrets to having what you want and achieving your desires ...

Even if you’ve gotten past the title, you may be thinking: “Great, another boring article on writing skills from some tiresome, know-it-all hack.” When it comes to legal writing, I’m no Bryan Garner or Marshall Tanick. Yes, the title is ...

Like many young idealists, Bradley Schlozman aimed to make a difference in government. Overseeing the U.S. Justice Department’s civil-rights division, he dedicated himself to making sure he hired “right-thinking Americans” instead of the sort of “politburo members” and “pinkos” who ...