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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.