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Six-Year Sentence for Consensual Teen Sex Oct. 19, 2023
When Henry was 18, he had sex with a 16-year-old he met on a dating app who said he was 18, too. The... Read More
Library's Offering of a Porn How-To Book Is Self-Sabotage at a Dangerous Time Sep. 25, 2023
American libraries are in a dangerous moment. Elected demagogues and right-wing mobs are attacking t... Read More
Schools Should Get Control of the Phones Sep. 22, 2023
The failures of our K-12 educational establishment are no secret. All over the country, schools pass... Read More
'Public Broadcasting' Bored Silly by Republican Hearings Sep. 22, 2023
Attorney General Merrick Garland offered a "fiery defense" in a "grueling hearing" of a House Judici... Read More
Back-to-School Basics: Public Schools Are Not Sunday Schools Sep. 11, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
As public school students return to classrooms for the new school year, some could face an unexpecte... Read More
Don't Tread On a Boy's Free Speech Aug. 31, 2023
From the all-things-are-racist movement comes something we missed in third grade. The Gadsden Flag &... Read More
Missouri Still Allows Corporal Punishment in Schools. It's Tax-Funded Child Abuse. Aug. 16, 2023
Even as Missouri lawmakers have been busily working to ensure that public school children get whitew... Read More
Idaho Wants To Jail Professors for Teaching About Abortion Aug. 14, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
At Idaho's public universities, professors who teach, discuss or write about abortion may now face u... Read More
Should the Homeless Have the Constitutional Right to Sleep in Public Parks? Jul. 08, 2023
Is there a constitutional right to sleep in a public park or beach? In the western United States the... Read More
Theocracy's Foot in the Door Jun. 01, 2023
When the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in effect, that a high school football coach who led hi... Read More
Are Public Employee Unions Unconstitutional? Jan. 27, 2023
How did it come to pass that public employee unions, which scarcely existed 60 years ago, have come ... Read More
It's Public Pool Season. Wait, Is That a Band-Aid? Jun. 11, 2022
In these chaotic potato salad days, it's hard to find a single destination where everyone has someth... Read More
County Council Meetings Must Stop Serving as Forums for Hate Speech Dec. 20, 2021
Something is seriously wrong with the public speaking format used by the St. Louis County Council in... Read More
Campus Censors Fear Leonard Law Clones Sep. 28, 2021
What do Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins have in common? These elite private univer... Read More
The Collapse of the U.S. Government Sep. 03, 2021
Taxes are the price we pay for government. But a government that doesn't provide basic bureaucratic ... Read More
August 2, 2021 Aug. 02, 2021
Dear Annie: I have a toddler grandson (18 months old), and his mother leaves him alone in the bathtu... Read More
A Virus Makes the Supreme Court More Transparent: Unprecedented Live Audio Streaming of Oral Arguments Could Signal More Openness Apr. 29, 2020
The case that the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday morning, a trademark dispute involvin... Read More
Coronavirus Risks Reward Some Mar. 06, 2020
Something appears to be outpacing the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, commonly known as th... Read More
Mass Transit Is Making Gridlock Worse Mar. 03, 2020
Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens ... Read More
A Primer on Domestic Spying Feb. 13, 2020
"The Framers ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most co... Read More
