* Now is the time to check the Supreme Court's powers, not pay deference to them. * Scalia abhorred the “exalted conception” of the Court, but his death puts it front and center. * In his decisions, Scalia said the court—”a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine”—needed to
* McConnell commits to unprecedented stand against the Presidency's authority to nominate Supreme Court Justices. * Hillary commits to "single-issue" critique of Sanders—she even unveiled a call-and-response cheer that breaking up banks won't end racism. * In 1990, Trump lost millions to a
* Takeaways from the sixth Democratic debate: Clinton is specific, perhaps nobly; Sanders is all coffeehouse rage. * Kanye West’s sneakers are currently a better investment than almost any other asset class. * "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah feud with videos. * See also:
* After negotiations are broadcast live on YouTube, remaining Oregon militia members agree to surrender. * On Hillary and Bill's first date, they crossed a picket line to see a Mark Rothko exhibit. * Milbank: A new Jeb Bush has been sighted on the trail and on TV, and this one
* After Trump triumphs in New Hampshire, GOP envisions a long, bruising fight to secure a palatable competitor. * Sanders’s youth movement powered by revived energy in the new campus left. * Gloria Steinem's comment—that young women are supporting Sanders to meet boys—shows the rift between imperial and
* FOP is the world's largest association of police unions. A third of its contracts with US cities require the eventual destruction of misconduct complaints. * Chicago's FOP shapes often-false narratives around victims of fatal police shootings. * How a law unique to Florida, allowing juries to reach
* Amid accusations North Korea fired a missile over Japan, the rocket entered space and dropped an object into orbit. * French police have been using the government's state of emergency to target Muslims. * Europe does not have a refugee crisis; the top refugee-accepting countries per capita are in
* Obama pressed by top military advisers to attack the Islamic State in Libya. * Sanders gets credit for last night's debate performance, but still is expected to lose massively if he's the nominee. * Jeb's request for applause is the latest sign he's giving
This is a sponsored post from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a program established by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to enhance the local art scene by retaining and recruiting artists to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Entering its second year, the TAF is expanding to include writers. With
Announcing the brackets for the 2016 edition of The Morning News Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
