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Robert Bullard

Environmental Justice Advocate

Julia Pierson has headed protective operations for the White House and served on security details of Presidents George H. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

FOR HIRE: Secret Service Agent

Our new series looks at the jobs you wish you had. First up, the agency's highest-ranking woman

Barbed Wire was designed for "preventing cattle from breaking through wire-fences," Glidden writes in his application.

Patent Pending

The Supreme Court may soon reinvent the rules for invention

The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost

Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches

Democrats (in a 1856 cartoon) paid a heavy price for the perception that they would go to any lengths to advance slavery.

The Law that Ripped America in Two

One hundred fifty years ago, the Kansas-Nebraska Act set the stage for America's civil war

"A picturesque subject indeed!" Sarony said before making the photograph, Oscar Wilde, No. 18, that figured in a historic lawsuit.

Supremely Wilde

How an 1882 portrait of the flamboyant man of letters reached the highest court in the land and changed U.S. law forever

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Day by Day, In Pursuit of Justice

In Washington County, Vermont, prosecutors face mounting caseloads, looming deadlines —and ongoing drama

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Protect and Serve

In a small town that practices community policing, officers faithfully fulfill their mission with courage and compassion

John Marshall by Henry Inman, 1832

Chief Justice Marshall Takes the Law in Hand

Upsetting Presidents and setting precedents, he helped forge a nation

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