Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment — which protects the individual right to privacy ...

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a larger conversation about austerity — was one of ethos. "We weren't spending the money in theory," she wrote, "or in 1945, ...

Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture. This assumed that the end of a constitutional right to abortion was the victory after which ...

The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers "recover lost wages." That's just nonsense. The new rules will make it harder for some freelancers to support a family. My ...

I left the house at high noon. Outdoors, Washington dressed in light spring green with splashes of pink cherry trees. The sun shone, no cloud cover. We earthlings had our eyes on the sky, from Texas to Maine. A solar eclipse was landing. That was the path of "totality," a harmonic convergence ...

My working life is housed within a kind of carnival of scientists. Take, for example, Carie, often seen from a distance walking off into the horizon and wading into Great Salt Lake to visit and check in on specimens. Part rock and part goo, the microbiological colonies she studies reside in ...