Sunstein: A simple way to ease the pain of airline overbooking
The Department of Transportation, working with the major airlines, should substantially increase the compensation given to passengers involuntarily bumped because of overbooking.
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Can the Civil Rights Act cover anti-gay bias, too?
The case involved in this week's ruling was brought by a former adjunct professor at an Indiana community college who claimed that her contract was not renewed because she is...
Sunstein: Trump’s first 50 days are decisive
Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, Americans have thought that for any new president, the first 100 days are critical, because he has a honeymoon period in which Congress will...
Sunstein: Don’t expect the Supreme Court to change much
The Donald Trump presidency, coupled with the new Congress, is likely to produce major changes in federal law. But for the Supreme Court, expect a surprising amount of continuity.
Sunstein: Bob Dylan surpassed Walt Whitman as the American poet
Bob Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the defining American artist, celebrating the capacity for self-invention as the highest form of freedom.
Sunstein: Why it pays to tell Americans who they are
When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 鈥淭hat抖阴ap not who we are.鈥�
Sunstein: That pocket Constitution packs a few surprises
Khan's words have pointed the Constitution's thousands of fresh readers toward a text that might well surprise them. Still, James Madison, father of the founding document, would be pleased.
Sunstein: The Republican convention, translated for liberals
Many Democrats do not merely disagree with the Republican platform and with the speakers at the convention. They may even struggle to understand what they are reading and hearing.
Sunstein: Facebook’s new news feed isn’t progress
Last week Facebook announced a change in its News Feed service, designed to put human beings in contact with people of similar thought to themselves. That is not progress.
Sunstein: Affirmative action ruling is victory for humility
In refusing to strike down a race-conscious admissions plan at the University of Texas, the Supreme Court did more than uphold an affirmative action program.