(THE CONVERSATION) You’ve probably seen them: alarming columns or stories with alarming headlines about how somebody is going to exploit an obscure provision in election law to undo the 2024 ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Claire Jerry, Smithsonian Institution; Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Institution, and Lisa ...
Rogers pilloried governmental ineptness in Washington, D.C. One year, when Congress reconvened after a round of egregious bickering and inaction, he joked, “Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength ...
The name Kris Kringle, though, was unrelated to Saint Nicholas. Instead, it came from the German word Christkindlein, meaning “Christ child,” referring to the baby in the manger. So, unlike St.
Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can ...
In 2023, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law Tennessee Senate Bill 1, known as SB1. SB1 bans gender-affirming medical care for trans people under the age of 18.
Administrative law also provides the legal standards used by the courts to determine whether new or revised policies are valid. A court will reverse the adoption of a policy if it is “arbitrary and ...