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A "perfect storm" for pro-life advocates Published 8:45 a.m. today Conservative attacks on reproductive rights are once again in the news. Headlines were made when Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and pro-choice advocates could only imagine the restrictions on access to abortion that would result. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey made headlines by enacting the nation’s most restrictive bill on prevention of abortion at the sign of a fetal heartbeat, and pro-lifers anticipated a snowball effect of similar pieces of legislation around the country.  Most recently, Arizona GOP le...

Long live the imperial presidency? May 15,2021 - Last updated at May 15,2021 CHICAGO — One of the striking contrasts between the Trump and Biden administrations is in the debate about whether the presidency has achieved more power than is consistent with the public good. Donald Trump’s term in office was accompanied by a drumbeat of commentaries arguing that the presidency had become too powerful, enabling a madman or despot to destroy Americans’ liberties. The critics urged Congress and the courts to reassert themselves before the country slid into authoritarianism. Since Joe Biden too...

New Study on Supreme Court Shows Dramatic Increase in Support for Religious Freedom A new study of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1953 shows the nation’s highest tribunal has moved from supporting religious freedom less than half the time to almost always in recent years. “The Roberts Court has ruled in favor of religious organizations far more frequently than its predecessors, over 81% of the time, compared to about 50% for all previous eras since 1953,” report legal scholars Lee Epstein and Eric Posner Jr. in the latest edition of the University of Chicago’s Supreme Court Rev...

PlutoniumKun: And there’s more! Wow. Wow. I’ll admit that I am a Maroon, although back during its Minoan period, when I majored in Linear B and the Art of Incisions. The Woke Meritocracy is a kind of horror show of what it means to be an undergrad now. In the middle of the essay, author Blake Smith notes two things that indicate a kind of perpetual childhood: First, the parents are the helicopter parents, smothering the child. Second, his students don’t read for pleasure. This means that they are “performing” being adults by constantly referring to manufactured identities.

With growing momentum behind efforts to reform and strengthen US antitrust enforcement, a decades-long trend toward increasing market concentration may soon be confronted head-on. But enforcement alone will not cure what ails the US economy – especially not when US consumers themselves are smitten with the monopolists.