by JASON M. SZANYI and KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
This past term, in Ricci v. DeStefano,[1] the Supreme Court reshaped employment discrimination litigation. In a decision that garnered significant notoriety both for its potential impact on the future …
by JASON BORDOFF and JASON FURMAN
It has been more than two decades since lawmakers last achieved meaningful bipartisan tax reform to lower tax rates and broaden the tax base. That reform effort was fueled by …
by TIMOTHY E. WIRTH
When the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius suggested in 1896 that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could warm the surface temperature of the Earth, the industrial revolution was in full …
by P.J. CROWLEY
If history is a guide, there will be a significant terrorist attack against the United States in 2009, or at least an attempted strike associated with the upcoming presidential transition. The first Bush …
by LOIS J. SCHIFFER and RICHARD J. LAZARUS
If, as it is often described, the United States Department of Justice is the “nation’s lawyer,” then the Environment and Natural Resources Division within the Department is the …
by JAMES K. ROBINSON
A Japanese proverb says: “The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.” Though the recent misconduct within the Department of Justice (the “Department”) occurred over …
by SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has a unique place in the national struggle for civil rights. In both the courts and public discourse, civil rights advocates have …
by Janet Reno and Geoffrey M. Klineberg
The new Attorney General will face a breathtakingly broad range of issues. From developing principles for criminal prosecutions and antitrust investigations and the enforcement of environmental and fair housing …
by JOHN LESHY
Water has long deeply resonated with Americans, especially in less humid parts of the country. Most do not regard it as just another commodity, or indeed as just another natural resource. Today our …
BY PRISCILLA J. SMITH
In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Court reversed course from Stenberg v. Carhart, a decision issued just seven years before and, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, upheld the “Partial-Birth Abortion …
by FLORENCE WAGMAN ROISMAN
The gravest housing problem in the United States—indeed, I would say, the gravest of all domestic problems in the United States—is residential racial segregation, particularly as manifested in the concentration of African-Americans …
by JEFF LESLIE
Crowding poor people together, isolating them from mainstream opportunities, and providing substandard policing, education, and other services constitute bad public policy. Decades of experience with public housing projects that featured just this constellation …
