As of last Thursday, thousands of American families will now be able to claim crucial tax protections and benefits they were previously denied. In what is arguably the federal government’s most significant rule change since the Supreme Court’s watershed June decision striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the Treasury Department and its Internal […]

Those found not responsible for criminal offenses shouldn’t be warehoused in a corrections facility.

Sentencing a 49-year-old man to 30 days for exploiting a 14-year-old is an outrage.

Avoiding a shutdown is not enough: There is still time to reach a grand bargain on the deficit.