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Justice Ginsburg: ‘I Am Very Much Alive’  —  Toggle more options  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview Tuesday that she does not favor proposals put forth by some Democratic presidential candidates who have advocated changing the number of Supreme Court justices if the Democrats win the presidency.

Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism Is Becoming A Load-Bearing Myth For American Politics  —  When House Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about the Israel lobby took over the news cycle earlier this year, they struck some as innocuously accurate, others as impolitic, while for others they were outrageous and inflammatory.

Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson  —  I first set eyes on Boris Johnson in the autumn of 1983 when we went up to Oxford at the same time.  I knew who he was since my uncle Christopher was an ex-boyfriend of his mother's and he had told me to keep an eye out for him …

Beyond Pelosi  —  Every time I see Nancy Pelosi patiently spell out the higher political wisdom of refraining from impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, I think of Alan Greenspan.  That's obviously not because the speaker of the House and the famously tight-lipped former Fed chair …

FTC strikes $5B Facebook settlement against fierce Democratic objections  —  The FTC on Wednesday officially unveiled its $5 billion data privacy settlement with Facebook — adding to the outrage of Democratic lawmakers and regulators who called the provisions far too mild to hold …

Current Sr. Google Engineer Goes Public on Camera: Tech is “dangerous,” “taking sides”  —  Insider: “It's time to decide, do we run the technology, or does the technology run us?”  —  “I really don't buy the idea that big tech is politically neutral.”  —  “Are we going to just let the …

Justice - Joe Biden for President  —  The Biden Plan for Strengthening America's Commitment to Justice Equality, equity, justice - these ideas form the American creed.  We have never lived up to it and we haven't always gotten it right, but we've never stopped trying.