WASHINGTON—Insisting more people should get to wear an old oilskin hat and smoke a pipe at work, the American populace on Tuesday demanded more jobs in which a person gets to steer a ship with a big w...

Randal C. “Randy” Picker, ’85, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and a beloved teacher, influential scholar, and deeply committed citizen of the University of Chicago, died ...

Aging politicians are just the “tip of the iceberg.”

Sailing has long been a sport that is far easier to take part in than to watch. Now, three Swedish innovators are determined to change that using

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A discussion of the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement.

Christy Mag Uidhir will be giving up his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. Readers may recall that the administration at the University of Houston had adopted the "indo...

ST. LOUIS—Voicing frustration as he discussed his lack of even the most rudimentary skills, local man Henry Right told reporters Monday that he had finally gotten good enough at his new hobby to under...

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Benjamin C. Zipursky (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Pragmatic Conceptualism, Public Nuisance, and the American Opioid Litigation (Forthcoming in 83 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. __ (2026) (Draft of March 20, 2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Public nuisance as a part of American tort law has been as high profile in the first decades of this century as products liability law was in the last several decades of the 20th century.

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.