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NAPOLITANO: The Trump Surveillance State

The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. ...

PARKER: How to think about affordability

"Affordability" is the word grabbing the headlines in public discourse these days. However, if affordability is a problem, it's important to be clear about what exactly the problem is and what can be done. Gallup has new polling data noting that the "high cost of living continues to top ...

Guest opinion: Passing it on

It’s amazing (and terrifying) what we pass on to our children. We only have one child. I’m proud and irritated to say that she has taken everything I may be marginally good at and surpassed me. This is great when it comes to cooking which I get to eat, irritating when she displays talents ...

MCCAUGHEY: Your whereabouts are known at all times

"Big Brother is watching you" is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras. Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the ...

GARVEY: ‘You’re doing it wrong: Pants-washing edition’

The article in The Washington Post pulled no punches. "You're probably washing your pants wrong," the headline informed me, with no small degree of smugness. "Here's how to do it right." As a woman and a parent, I am quite accustomed to being told that I'm doing something wrong, so, being ...