Commentary

The Transportation Security Administration's new "secret watch list" is purportedly meant to protect airport security screeners. But it could easily turn into an "enemies list" of people the TSA will target at airports.

Though it largely flew under the radar, the SCOTUS decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank is a large step backwards in the fight for human rights.

Bowing to the president’s most extreme allies, the White House has put forward the First Step Act, which leaves out sentencing reform entirely.

Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, recently told banking executives that, while in Congress, he would turn away any lobbyist who had not contributed to his campaign. He urged the lenders to use their influence to get lawmakers to gut the agency. But what about working Americans and debtors — can their influence measure up?