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The standoff between the United States and Iran is usually introduced as a nuclear story.

American immigration enforcement is governed by a body of constitutional law that applies nowhere else in the American legal system.

American housing policy began as land policy. Long before Washington insured a mortgage or paid part of anyone's rent, it gave land away, with a stated preference for the person who would actually live on it.

In December 2014, with the West African Ebola epidemic still spreading, Congress finalized appropriations that included roughly 5.4 billion dollars in emergency Ebola funding, about 3.7 billion of it directed to the…

Every export control begins from a single, slightly unnerving proposition: that selling something can itself be a strategic act.

There is no single body of law called "transgender law." There are at least four separate legal tracks, built on different machinery, developed by different institutions at different times, answering different questions.

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Almost everything that follows rests on one sentence written in 1787.

A trade secret is the strangest asset in intellectual property, because it is the only major one that dies the moment its owner shows it to the world.

Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment on February 26, 1869, and it was ratified on February 3, 1870.