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A scholar of law argues that the courts should defer to the states, even if a new law might be unconstitutional. But we don’t need a deferential court; we need a court that will administer justice.

Law Professor Jay Wexler comments on the “clear as oatmeal” SCOTUS decisions on monument issues.

A traffic court in Dubai declares a woman guilty of manslaughter after a traffic accident in which she loses her child. Why not go ahead and ban pregnancy?

What does this mysterious sculpture depict? Popular answers include: an aardvark, a bird, an Afghan hound, and one of Picasso’s lovers. But to my eyes, it looks like a sphinx—a monster that (like the anamorphic skull haunting Hans Holbein’s famous painting The Ambassadors) only snaps into focus when viewed from an oblique perspective. To perceive the recumbent sphinx you have to approach the piece not from the front but from behind and to the side.

Arlen Specter is hardly the first Republican moderate to leave his party after the bullying conducted in the name of policy and GOP purity.

College Democrats deface crosses intended for anti-abortion protest and get nailed. Not nice to vandalize someone else’s property, but in political activism, kind of de rigueur.

The sound and fury of Americans United for Life’s report.

Social media fans were all atwitter last week about a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “ Social Networking Sites and Our Lives.”

Fundamentalist Mormons are in the news again, in Canada, where two men are being tried for polygamy. But what if it were legal? Women might benefit.

Young people are being trained by militant anti-abortion groups to be informed, media-savvy, publicity-oriented foot soldiers in the battle to outlaw abortion.