To be just the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court is to blaze trails, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did throughout her career – for decades before Millennials coined her the “Notorious RBG.” For women, especially women judges and lawyers, she’s an icon. But the emergence of justices as symbolic political figures, some say, could do damage to the high court.
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Conservationists hope that the iconic birds can encourage a rare, ecologically-friendly approach to coastal development in a time of mounting human and environmental pressure on coastlines around the world.
Read moreEven as it became apparent that a bombmaker had exploited modern fondness for online shopping to invoke terror, US law enforcement used emerging social dynamics, including Americans’ growing comfort with surveillance cameras, to protect the public.
Read moreFrom lawyers and judges to legislators and the conservative governor, nobody wants to build more prisons. But getting all those stakeholders to agree on what to do instead is proving a challenge.
Read moreTuesday’s primaries brought a show of enthusiasm among Democrats in the Lone Star State not seen in years. But it still may not be enough for them to win a single statewide race.
Read moreIn July, Kentucky will become the first state to enforce work and community engagement requirements for some Medicaid recipients. The debate centers on fundamental questions: Does work make you healthier, or do you need to be healthy to work? And is health care a benefit or a right?
Read more“Colonias” have become a defacto solution to the nation’s affordable housing crisis in Texas — with 500,000 Texans choosing to live in the impoverished, informal communities despite the deficiencies. Is their very presence a moral blot on a rich nation’s conscience? Or are they a defacto affordable housing solution that should be more formalized and regulated?
Read moreFive school shootings so far in 2018 have resulted in serious physical injury or death – including the fatal shooting of 17 students and teachers in Florida.
Read moreEvery week, WMMT broadcasts recorded messages from friends and family members of the more than 5,000 men incarcerated in the six federal and state prisons within range of Whitesburg, Ky.
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Three hundred years after the founding of a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texans are grappling with post-statehood histories that put white male settlers front and center. A new generation of historians seeks a more diverse set of characters.
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