As dogs and other animals increasingly are used in courts to comfort and calm prosecution witnesses, a few voices are calling for keeping the practice on a short leash, saying they could bias juries, the Associated Press reports. The use of dogs in courts has...
The number of federal prosecutions for white-collar offenses has plummeted, The American Lawyer reports. The decline has occurred steadily, but under the Trump administration, such prosecutions have fallen below 6,000 per year for the first time in 20 years, says the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...
It’s no secret that both our criminal justice system and our health care system are failing. Yet there is a growing awareness among social policy experts and scholars that something surprising happens when you look at these two systems together: Opportunities for meaningful solutions emerge because...
The Food and Drug Administration called on internet service providers and social media sites including Facebook and Twitter to police online sales of illegal opioid drugs more carefully, the Wall Street Journal reports. “We find offers to purchase opioids all over social media and the...
The 1970s had the preferable culture, but the 1980s had the better politics....
It has been difficult to keep track of an administration that cut its teeth on reality TV—an administration that seems to have an endless supply of daily distractions and made-for-TV scandals. In addition to degrading the office of the president, these distractions draw our attention away...