Legal System

Contrary to myth, Latin America has relatively few civilian-owned guns — either legal or illegal. But this hasn't prevented enduring high rates of violent crime.

Michael Boldin and Jeff Deist discuss the realities behind breaking up the US politically.

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.

With far too much time and money on their hands, federal prosecutors have now turned private basketball agreements into a matter for federal criminal prosecution.

Representation is a fig leaf that is insufficient to cover the brutal fact that even in our sophisticated modern states, some rule and others are ruled.

It is important to change our political culture, which treats "democracy," or the "right" to vote, as the supreme political good.

Politicians never let due process or evidence stand in the way of a declaration of guilt.

Was Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase an early example of presidential malfeasance?

In spite of stringent gun-control measures, Brazil's homicide rates are among the worst in the world. Now there's a movement to let more Brazilians defend themselves with private gun ownership.

Homicide rates in the US remain well below where they were 25 years ago, and stubbornly high homicide rates are a regional — and not a national — problem.