BY JOE CONASON When Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932 that a “single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country,” he was suggesting that state innovations might advance reform on the federal level. The progressive Supreme Court […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Watching Gov. Mary Fallin and the Oklahoma congressional delegation’s assorted buffoonery, I am reminded of my friend Eve who once observed,...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I will readily admit that I have been all over the map when it comes to the death penalty. As a young lawyer and law professor, I was opposed to it. Actually, it was easy to be against it. The evidence that it was being administered arbitrarily and unfairly was so overwhelming […]

BY SHARON MARTIN The rebel leaders of the American Revolution created a national post office in July of 1775, eight years before the revolution ended. In...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Media outlets across the country trumpeted the stunning news with headlines like this: “Citigroup Punished.” At last, went the storyline, the Justice Department brought down the hammer on one of the greed-headed Wall Street giants that are guilty of massive mortgage frauds that crashed our economy six years ago. While millions of […]