Joel B. Pollak

The decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bring civil charges late last week against former MF Global head and Obama campaign bundler Jon Corzine raises the question of why New York’s own energetic Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, stayed out of

Now that the Senate has passed the deeply flawed “Gang of 8” immigration bill with fewer than the 70 votes that proponents originally boasted, the spotlight has shifted to House Republicans. Early indications are that House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep.

On Thursday, President Barack Obama suffered a diplomatic slip in a joint press conference with President Macky Sall of Senegal when he urged African nations to accept gay marriage. Sall countered that his country was tolerant but would not decriminalize

Mark Salter, former chief of staff and speechwriter for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), has some fun at the expense of Arizona’s voters in an article touting the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that comes before the Senate Thursday. “[J]ust pass

Justice Anthony Kennedy did the cause of gay marriage no favors when he ruled that the purpose of laws that uphold traditional marriage was to “disparage and injure” same-sex couples. By casting support for traditional marriage falsely as bigotry, he

The Justices may have wished to avoid the problems that still plague Roe v. Wade forty years later, but it is clear the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 will further polarize our politics.

The Supreme Court’s rulings Wednesday on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8 are being viewed as a limited victory for advocates of same-sex marriage–and also for federalism. The Court’s decision to strike down DOMA means that a

Justice Anthony Kennedy provided the swing vote in a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court decision Wednesday striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had defined marriage as between a man and a woman for federal purposes, and had allowed

As the Supreme Court prepares to hand down its decisions in two key cases about gay marriage today, the shadow of Roe v. Wade, delivered forty years ago, hangs over the Justices. The landmark abortion decision was a federal and

The core problem with President Barack Obama’s speech on climate change is that it rejects environmental science in favor of the utopian idea that we can, acting collectively, control the weather. His beliefs on climate resemble his beliefs about the

Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was a loss for the Obama administration, which had used the Voting Rights Act to attack state voter ID laws, suggesting that they were racist.