Charles Lane

When juveniles are out of control in Colorado's youth corrections facilities, state employees sometimes use a device called "the wrap." But is it being used appropriately?

Charles Lane: The goal of fair and consistent incarceration

October 26, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

Despite recent decreases, the United States still incarcerates more people, in absolute numbers and as a share of our population, than any other nation on Earth. This statistic is nothing...

Lane: This solution to gerrymandering is worse than the problem

April 4, 2018 at 12:30 p.m.

Sandra Day O'Connor was right: The Supreme Court should leave partisan politics to the partisan politicians.

The FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Lane: Political attacks on FBI are a nightmare for a democracy

February 9, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Attacks on the FBI by President Donald Trump and the Republican Party raise the question of whether it's possible to maintain an effective, and legitimate, intelligence establishment under such partisan...

Lane: Euthanasia for the vulnerable?

January 26, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

The euthanasia of mentally ill or cognitively impaired patients is inherently controversial. Given the risk of fatal error, how many botched cases would it take to discredit the practice completely?

The Department of Justice is signaling that it will begin investigating universities over whether their admissions policies illegally discriminate against applicants, according to a published report.

Lane: Why restart the affirmative-action war?

August 3, 2017 at 12:34 p.m.

The Justice Department apparently wants to revisit the perennial issue of affirmative action in university and college admissions -- remarkable news for many reasons.

Lane: Just how partisan is too partisan?

June 23, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.

State legislature majorities, abetted by like-minded governors, have a bad habit of skewing congressional and state legislative districts to their party鈥檚 advantage.

People walk to a church to say a prayer near the baseball field in Alexandria, Va., where a gunmen wounded five people, including Rep. Steve Scalise, on Wednesday.

Lane: How we respond to the baseball shooting is what really matters

June 16, 2017 at 12:00 a.m.

Acts of murderous political violence aren't new and don't tell us much about the state of the country and its political culture. What抖阴ap revealing, however, is how Americans respond.

The Army Old Guard color guard stands watch during a wreath-laying ceremony, at the grave of former President John F. Kennedy, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

Lane: Why I shed tears on Memorial Day this year

May 31, 2017 at 4:07 p.m.

Over the past few years, I have made a point of visiting Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. This time, I shed some tears. And I would like to say...

Sen. John F. Kennedy could conceivably be celebrating his 100th birthday on Monday had he not been assassinated in 1963.

Charles Lane: On JFK’s 100th birthday, Donald Trump repudiates his legacy

May 26, 2017 at 12:41 p.m.

President Donald Trump's inauguration speech was no mere tonal difference; it was a flat repudiation of John F. Kennedy's policy legacy, whether Trump intended it that way or not.

A member of the news media walks in front of the FBI headquarters building on May 11, a day after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

Lane: Now that James Comey is gone, what happens to the FBI?

May 11, 2017 at 9:22 a.m.

We are about to learn whether the FBI can preserve its professionalism, and its ethos of nonpartisan national service, at a time when its supposed political masters have lost theirs.

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