"We created a monster," says Brad Cates, who helped write civil forfeiture laws as director of the Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture office.

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young ...

Thinking big thoughts so you don't have to. Focusing on current events, John Williams discusses the news of the day, sports, television programs, movies, and books with a thoughtful perspective and ...