At the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s recent hearings on Wal-Mart’s application to acquire a bank-like institution in Utah that can accept FDIC-insured deposits, a representative of the ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

There are basically two ways to make or evaluate government policy–superstition and logic. In the case of superstition, evidence is not necessary. Those who favor a particular policy don’t feel they ...

Former Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy addresses reporters Monday in June 2017 outside the William K. Nakamura Courthouse in Seattle following arguments before a panel of judges from ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. I would like to contrast two recent new stories. The July 24 edition of the Chronicle reports ...

James F. Harris, Jr., Haserot Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, directed an NEH Summer Seminar in 2006 titled "The Principle of Separation of Church and State." Fifteen teachers, mostly high school ...

The executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government have separate powers under the Constitution. Separate powers provide checks and balances on the central government through the ...