I was scrolling through Instagram stories when I came across a post by a man I knew, though not closely. Since the recent war and the growing fear that Donald Trump might destroy Iran, his attitude toward the Islamic Republic seemed to have changed. He had begun to defend the government, or at least to [...]

Editor’s note: The author is a federal prisoner. The Fifth Circuit rejected his challenge to the stipulations in his case on Aug. 11, 2026, in an unpublished per curiam opinion (United States v. Castro, No. 24-11000). He has since submitted the Rule 23(d) proposal discussed here as Rules Suggestion 26-CR-39. Before a federal court accepts [...]

When I was in the third grade, my teacher told us that, before she had formally begun her career as a teacher, she was sitting on a bus when she saw Iraqi fighter jets flying overhead. The Iran-Iraq War had begun, and the image of aircraft above an ordinary road became, for her, the threshold [...]

In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]

US President Donald J. Trump continues to treat world politics as a quantifiable game to be won or lost. Among other errors, this treatment links world peace to belligerent nationalism and ignores the human foundations of national security. The following article by Purdue University Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres explains how such a view would [...]

In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]

When lawyers compare state juvenile justice systems, there is a natural temptation to begin with the visible rule: the minimum age, the availability of diversion, the possibility of transfer to adult court, or the existence of a restorative justice program. Those are important starting points. They are not always the rules that determine what actually [...]

The United States Constitution is the oldest written national charter still in force anywhere in the world, and the men who drafted it in 1787 worked in a predemocratic era, for a country whose leaders did not yet trust ordinary people to govern themselves. Some of what they produced is admirable. Other parts of it [...]

On September 30, a Delhi High Court bench dismissed the latest bail appeals of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, the third such rejection for Khalid and the second for Imam. The bench did not weigh the evidence against them afresh. It held, in its own words, that it was “bound by judicial discipline” to follow [...]

Yesterday, Americans learned that their government plans to broadcast a killing. The Pentagon said Thursday that the December execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be livestreamed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had vowed to make the execution public. The proposed spectacle would bring a firing squad into [...]