Gillette-Torvik Blog

The 2016 presidential election is more than three years away. Nevertheless, people are thinking about it.  For example, Dan Balz at the Wash...

The Equal Pay Act turns 50 today. With certain exceptions the act outlaws employers using sex as a reason to pay employees differently when...

Our Reader(s)™ might be excused for thinking that all Mr. Torvik and I do is discuss weighty matters like D-Day and domestic surveillance ....

The Guardian and the Washington Post broke blockbuster stories this week about the NSA using cooperative (some would say pliant) corporati...

69 years ago today , Allied Forces invaded France to free it, and Europe, from Nazi occupation. Among the thousands of American, British, an...

On Tuesday, I called for Ohio State University president E. Gordon Gee to retire . Thirty minutes later, he did . Behold: the power of the G...

As I  mentioned the other day , the Supreme Court has ratified the practice of taking a DNA sample from all people accused of "serious ...

The comic strip Stone Soup ran a strip on Tuesday in which the mother in the strip told her daughters to ask three questions before they s...

There is a movement afoot in New York to remove its constitution's requirement that judges retire at age 70. Mr. Gillette recently po...

Following yesterday's Supreme Court opinion in Maryland v. King , in which the Court approved a Maryland law allowing the state to take ...