Soccer’s Exorbitant Costs Soccer belongs to the people. But in the United States, it is hoarded by the wealthy. Like housing, healthcare, and groceries, American youth-soccer has become prohibitively expensive. It can run families as much as $10…
Fetal mortality rates in the United States have been on an overall decline since the 1990s,[1] but data demonstrates that there is a stillbirth crisis across the nation.[2] Yale School of Medicine found that 20% of all pregnancies across the United States…
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”) prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the specified minority groups.[1] Although the Supreme Court has continuously narrowed…
On October 31, 2025, the same day two federal judges ordered the Trump Administration to stop withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Payments (SNAP), formerly food stamps, from the 42 million Americans who rely on it,[1] the United States Department…
The U.S. has one of the greatest wealth gaps of any developed country in the world.[1] As the nation with the most billionaires[2] and the highest GDP,[3] the U.S. has a shamefully high poverty rate, with 11.5% of the population (37.9 million people)…
Freedom and personal agency are some of the most lauded virtues and policy goals in the American culture. This post is neither going to address the broader philosophical/theological debate about free will nor if choice is an ontologically sound concept…
Shannon Daves was arrested for a misdemeanor offense in Dallas County, Texas on January 17, 2018.[1] She was taken to the county jail and brought before a magistrate for a “hearing” to determine the amount of money bail she would be required to come…
The other day, a man stopped me on the sidewalk outside the Georgetown Law campus. “Excuse me,” he said, “which way should I walk to get to Germantown, Maryland?” It took me a moment to process his question—I was not sure where Germantown was…
People experiencing incarceration are the only population for whom the Constitution explicitly recognizes the right to healthcare.[1] Still, healthcare in carceral institutions remains abysmal, operating as both a tool and result of mass incarceration…
Last September, the United Auto Workers (UAW), the union representing nearly 150,000 employees at factories run by GM, Ford, and Stellantis (the “Big Three” automakers), initiated a historic strike.[1] Chief among the unions’ demands were calls…
