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2016 is now all about the Supreme Court: This is how Justice Scalia’s death deadlocks the Court — and changes presidential race

Republicans are likely to stonewall any Obama nominee, turning the '16 race into a Supreme Court battleground

Paul Campos Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 4:58 AM UTC 0
Innovation Scalia dead, Antonin Scalia

Wait, Harvard Law School’s leading liberal is trying to gut essential climate-change regulations?

Laurence Tribe for Big Coal? A liberal icon, on the wrong side of case that endangers Paris accords, spins his side

Paul Campos Friday, Feb 12, 2016 3:12 PM UTC 0
Sustainability laurence tribe, Editor's Picks

Hillary Clinton’s self-satisfied privilege: Her Goldman Sachs problem helps explain the popularity of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

She has a peculiar tone-deafness to how matters of class relate to her personally. It helps explain Sanders's rise

Paul Campos Friday, Feb 5, 2016 7:31 PM UTC 0
Business Hillary Clinton, Elections 2016

Don’t put Obama on the Court: Even if confirmed (unlikely), Justice Obama would be a waste

He'd be underpaid, bored, and have to recuse himself on Obamacare cases. Obama on the Supreme Court is a bad idea

Paul Campos Monday, Feb 1, 2016 12:12 PM UTC 0
News Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

This is the Ted Cruz “birther” dilemma: He’s certainly an American. But “natural born” is a real question

With nativist sentiment running wild, liberal constitution experts gave Cruz a pass. The law may not be on his side

Paul Campos Friday, Jan 22, 2016 9:00 PM UTC 0
News Ted Cruz

Powerball is a national disgrace: The lottery exploits despair, and state governments should be ashamed

Defenders of state lotteries claim that playing these games is merely entertainment. Numbers tell a different story

Paul Campos Tuesday, Jan 12, 2016 10:59 AM UTC 0
Business Powerball, Poverty

Scalia’s raging hypocrisy: Encroaching senility, raging racism, or does he no longer give a f*ck?

Scalia's offensive remarks are all the more confounding because they're irrelevant to the University of Texas case

Paul Campos Friday, Dec 11, 2015 10:58 AM UTC 0
News Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court

“Another Paris is taking place in America this very day”: Republicans don’t care about dozens killed daily by guns

They'd ban families fleeing chaos, brutality. They're fine with assault weapons for everyone, even on no-fly lists

Paul Campos Thursday, Nov 19, 2015 5:13 PM UTC 0
News Republicans, Syria, Refugees, Paris

The decline and fall of White America: Inside the study that has shocked the public-health community

New research from Princeton has shown an all-but-unprecedented increase in mortality rates. Here's what to know

Paul Campos Wednesday, Nov 11, 2015 7:25 PM UTC 0
News public health, Demographics

Let us now blame George Bush: Trump and Jeb force a long overdue debate about 9/11

For years, W. got a pass from his party. Questioning him meant questioning our foreign policy. Those days are over

Paul Campos Monday, Oct 19, 2015 10:50 PM UTC 0
News Jeb Bush, Donald Trump

A history lesson for bitter conservatives: What the Supreme Court’s marriage-equality ruling really means

Opponents of same-sex marriage claim that "elites" are foisting their values on America. History says the opposite

Paul Campos Friday, Jun 26, 2015 6:49 PM UTC 0
News The Supreme Court

Deconstructing the right-wing freakout over the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling

Today's decision should've been a no-brainer. That it wasn't tells you something important about American politics

Paul Campos Thursday, Jun 25, 2015 9:29 PM UTC 0
News Obamacare, The Supreme Court

Massive endowments, massive tuition, massive debt: Our colleges are out of control and crushing students

Become a prostitute or drop out: That's the choice one NYU student faced. Administrators get rich, students overpay

Paul Campos Monday, Jun 8, 2015 4:15 PM UTC 0
Business Education, College, 1 percent

The strange case of Denny Hastert: The other reason why his indictment is so disturbing

In America, we allow people to buy silence regarding their crimes — as long as the appropriate paperwork is filed

Paul Campos Tuesday, Jun 2, 2015 8:55 PM UTC 0
News dennis hastert, U.S. Congress

America has not thought remotely hard enough about the death penalty

We must think longer and harder about why we support (or don't) the act of execution. Far too much is at stake.

Paul Campos Saturday, May 16, 2015 1:30 PM UTC 0
News Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Confederate flag’s constitutional mess: What’s at stake in a Texas legal fight

Those seeking to buy license plates with the flag may be vile -- but here's why they're likely to prevail in court

Paul Campos Wednesday, Mar 25, 2015 2:58 PM UTC 0
Politics Supreme Court, law

Ferguson grand jury’s huge mistake: What the transcripts reveal about eyewitness testimony

A look at the investigation transcript illuminates a hugely problematic fact: This testimony cannot be trusted

Paul Campos Wednesday, Nov 26, 2014 4:15 PM UTC 0
Politics Grand Jury, testimony

Supreme Court’s abomination: How McCutcheon decision will destroy American politics

Thanks to Scalia and co., the rich will now be able to buy politicians as effortlessly as they buy anything else

Paul Campos Wednesday, Apr 2, 2014 2:47 PM UTC 0
Business Thomas Piketty

Michael Dunn’s sick license to kill: The hot-blooded murder of Jordan Davis and Florida’s perverted justice

Dunn created the confrontation, then made it deadly. Under Florida's insane laws, the prosecution was still limited

Paul Campos Sunday, Feb 16, 2014 5:10 PM UTC 0
News michael dunn, Jordan Davis

Crybabies of the 1 percent: Spoiled rich kids, Tom Perkins and the real affluenza

Forget affluenza. The rich's real "disease" is failing to get that their privileges come at a price: our contempt

Paul Campos Saturday, Feb 8, 2014 2:00 PM UTC 0
Business Affluenza, The one percent

Get a clue, McDonald’s: The other insult no one’s talking about

McDonald's got heat for telling its staff to have two jobs. Its financial planning advice is even more offensive

Paul Campos Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 4:25 PM UTC 0
Business McDonalds, Fast food, poor, Poverty

Zimmerman saga was all about race

Let's get real

Paul Campos Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 3:54 AM UTC 0
News George Zimmerman

This Supreme Court is a disgrace

People are celebrating it today. But yesterday’s voting rights call was one of the worst SCOTUS ones ever (UPDATED)

Paul Campos Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 12:20 PM UTC 0
Politics Supreme Court, Voting Rights

Legal analysis: How strong is the government’s case against Snowden?

Snowden's own description suggests he may be guilty of the crimes alleged. But in criminal law, motives are crucial

Paul Campos Monday, Jun 24, 2013 2:43 PM UTC 0
Politics Legal issues, Glenn Greenwald

How James Clapper will get away with perjury

Yes, the national director of intelligence lied under oath, and his defense is implausible. You think that matters?

Paul Campos Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 7:45 PM UTC 0
Politics James Clapper, NSA

We gave Tsarnaevs the attention they wanted

The suspects were nobodies who wanted to spread fear. A citywide lockdown and media hysteria helped them do that

Paul Campos Saturday, Apr 20, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 0
Media Boston Explosions

Our impotent Supreme Court

The marriage cases demonstrate that the Court does not drive social change. It merely reflects it after the fact

Paul Campos Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 7:48 PM UTC 0
Politics law, Supreme Court, Gay Marriage

Supreme Court: Racism deniers?

If the Scalia wing strikes down the Voting Rights Act, it thinks we're beyond our history of racial bias

Paul Campos Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 6:41 PM UTC 0
Politics Supreme Court, Race

Student loans: The next housing bubble

College students accrue hundreds of thousands in debt with little hope of paying it back. It's a cruel game

Paul Campos Monday, Feb 4, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 0
News student loans, Debt, law school

John Roberts bankrupts law students

The Supreme Court justice is paid thousands to "teach" in Europe -- and his law students are footing the bill

Paul Campos Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 0
Politics Supreme Court, John Roberts

Why do we keep getting suckered by stories like Manti Te’o?

Updated: On the heels of the Notre Dame scandal, guidelines for journalists reporting on inspirational stories

Paul Campos Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 7:34 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Editor's Picks, Lance Armstrong

Robert Bork’s nauseating worldview

It drove the right nuts when Ted Kennedy called out the racism and sexism in his legal views. But Kennedy was right

Paul Campos Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 7:38 PM UTC 0
Politics Robert Bork, Supreme Court

Why is the shooter always male?

Stats don't lie. Instead of asking why America is so violent, perhaps we need to focus on one particular sex

Paul Campos Monday, Dec 17, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 0
Life Race, male violence, mass killing

Tax cuts steal from future

Whether it's the "fiscal cliff" debate or the way we fund education, our selfishness is impeding our future growth

Paul Campos Friday, Dec 14, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 0
News Higher education, Education

Too many lawyers? Says who?

A New York Times Op-Ed claims law school is worth every penny. Time to pull apart some of that thinking

Paul Campos Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 11:30 PM UTC 0
Life paul campos, New York Times

A judge searches for free labor

Brand-new (and possibly illegal) low: U.S. judge wants a clerk who will "morally commit" for a year -- without pay

Paul Campos Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 12:45 PM UTC 0
Life william martinez, Employment

Don’t bust pot states, Obama

Voters in Washington and Colorado have OK'd marijuana legalization. The president should respect their will

Paul Campos Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 12:30 PM UTC 0
Politics Colorado, Medical Marijuana, Pot

Just the right kind of stupid

Rick Santorum's attack on "smart people" has its roots in centuries-old elite bashing. And it often works

Paul Campos Monday, Sep 17, 2012 2:45 PM UTC 0
Politics Rick Santorum, 2012 Elections

9/11: What Bush knew

An article sheds new light on the CIA's desperate efforts to warn about 9/11. Why didn't the White House listen?

Paul Campos Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 2:33 PM UTC 0
Politics 9/11, George W. Bush

America’s new culture of corruption

In America today, crime pays -- if you're powerful. Just look at the MF Global and CIA torture cases

Paul Campos Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 2:30 PM UTC 0
Politics CIA, MF Global, Lance Armstrong

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