Sandra Day O'Connor stepped down unexpectedly from the Supreme Court, closing out a career as the first female justice and the anchor of a shaky majority for abortion rights. President George W. Bush ...

Criminals aren’t terribly skilled at performing a cost-benefit analysis before embarking on their disastrous ventures, which they usually end up describing as “bad choices, Your Honor.” That’s all the ...

This is Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to the latest political developments in America. Sign up to Checks and Balance here. One year ago, ...

Take a stroll through Nashville’s Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and you’ll likely spend most of the time with your head angled up. At the entrance, a mosaic cast across the dome ceiling re-creates ...