Democrats have no say in Columbia, while the corporate-owned American Legislative Exchange Council, claiming a membership of 65 South Carolina legislators, exercises undue influence with their model legislation. Democrats must step forward. The...

Any opportunity to attack the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion or gay marriage; any opportunity to restrict voters’ rights based on an overblown fear of identity “fraud”; any opportunity to boost the fortunes of a...

A hunger strike at a private GEO Group immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, has spread to another GEO facility in Texas after President Obama called for a review of immigration-enforcement policies last week. But will private...

The plaintiffs are a collection of journalists, free-speech advocates, animal advocates, and others who argue that the new law violates the Supremacy Clause, the First Amendment, and (more creatively) the Fourteenth Amendment. The effect of the...

University of Wisconsin emeritus professor Jay Stampen’s study of the last session of the state Legislature showed 46 percent of Wisconsin’s lawmakers voted with the ALEC agenda 100 percent of the time.

The Farmers Branch ordinance struck down recently by a federal court was also modeled on legislation proposed by ALEC. An article in the Guardian newspaper last summer highlighted how backlash from the killing of Trayvon Martin and Florida’s...