Sometimes I think the human mind is like a train in being limited to the tracks that have already been laid. We are habituated to think it s...

In 2012, 80% of Greece’s private creditors agreed to “voluntarily” convert their Greek debt into debt of a bit less than half the face-value...

The “Arab Spring” of 2011 might have given the world an over-optimistic notion of what political protest can engender in terms of “regime ch...

In a 6-to-3 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that pardon procedures lay outside of its constitutional authority—that to...

Because the so-called “fiscal pact” amendment that would strength the E.U.’s enforcement of state government deficits and debts involves a ...

In early March, 2012, unions and conservative groups had already “turned Wisconsin’s battle over labor rights into a national, multimillion-...

On February 29, 2012—Leap Day—Radio political-commentator and entertainer Rush Limbaugh called a female law student at Georgetown a “slut” a...

On March 1, 2012 when Serbia formally became a candidate for statehood in the European Union, it had been over 50 years since a state was a...

In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the U.S. Supreme Court waded into the murky waters of corporate legal personhood, at least potentially, ...

At the end of February 2012, the World Bank released its “China 2030” report in Beijing. The bank’s president, Robert Zoellick, said that Ch...

Lest it be thought that the economic safety net for the neediest led some of the E.U. states into excessive public debt toward the end of t...

“The cherished American ideal of self-reliance has a flip side”[1]  Before getting to the implications, or flip side, I want to fill out wh...

In 2012, a mere fifty years after the project had begun, the fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) was finally...

At the beginning of 2012, Wisconsin and Germany were both suffering from the plight of compromised figureheads. In the case of Wisconsin, th...

One of the chief benefits of federalism is the ability of one system of government to check another within the overall federal system. In t...