Disparate-impact claims have a long record of opening doors in employment, education, voting, and housing. Conservatives want to bury them.

One day before Harvard goes to court to defend its admissions practices, two warring rallies made clear that the trial is about much more than just the university.

Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong.

Cities are arguing that they, too, were damaged by risky loans, and that they should be able to take the lenders to court to regain their losses.

Attacking the judges handling his cases is likely to backfire. But if it works, it will really work.

They aren’t bragging about it, but lawmakers in Congress have agreed on two fixes to the polarizing health law in the last month.

From Supreme Court cases to blockbuster films, these are the narratives on sex and gender that dominated the news this year.

CSI: Beltway. Doppelgängers. Zillow. The theories offered on behalf of the Supreme Court nominee have come to suggest a determined resistance to a changing world.