One principle has governed science funding in the United States for decades: that scientific judgment should not be supplanted by political pressures. That is the basis upon which the country’s ...

In January, 1923, Lee Strasberg went to Al Jolson’s 59th Street Theatre to see “Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich,” a nineteenth-century Russian play about sixteenth-century Russian politics, performed, in ...

The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...

The network of 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced with five local authorities, the government has announced. The new all-purpose councils - known as unitary authorities - are due to ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. The ...

Summer holidays of childhood entailed long, languid afternoons unfolding in the Nanke courtyard at Patiala, on the old wooden swing that had travelled from house to house with my Nanaji’s postings.

The "three buckets" picture of the federal government, in combination with the unitary executive thesis, gives extravagant power to the President. [The second of four blog posts drawing on yesterday's ...

The media’s takeaways from the December oral arguments in the Trump Justice Department’s bid to the Supreme Court to invalidate multimember “independent agencies” were unanimous: They were a big win ...

Following the California Coastal Commissions approval of extended operations at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, there is a local push to get unitary taxes reinstated. Unitary tax refers to the property tax ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

With most of Washington shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recalled employees to ensure that one statistic was released on time: the consumer price index. The Social Security Administration ...

A puzzle in theoretical chemistry has been solved at TU Wien: A new computational method now makes it possible to calculate the forces between large molecules with unprecedented accuracy. Why can ...