A common description for a film like Lee Daniels’ The Butler , one that attempts to define eras and relate a certain message, is “Oscar bait”. Just as Schindler’s List took one narrative and used it ...
The specter of fame brings many things – popularity, media attention, rampant analysis of personal behavior – but what it allows most of all is that most vital of human possibilities – opportunity. ...
The loss of 19 firefighters on Sunday to an Arizona wildfire has pierced the hearts of their loved ones and all Americans. These brave men died fighting a powerful wildfire near Phoenix, and their ...
Controversy recently struck the Texas Senate, as debate raged over the passage of abortion restrictions in Texas. The issue is a sensitive and controversial one, and following the filibuster of the ...
Over the past two decades, the decline in jury trials for civil cases has been precipitous. So precipitous, in fact, that the number of civil trials with juries fell 64 percent over the last 15 years ...
One of the biggest issues in any case is the establishment of fair and equal conditions for both parties. Our justice system rests on ideas of fairness and objectivity. Ideally, those values are ...