Articles by Jeff Bayard

For two centuries, marriage was something the states decided. In 2015, five justices decided it for all fifty of them. They found the answer in…

Congress wrote one word into law in 1972 and never stopped to define it. Fifty years later, an agency decided the word meant something else….

Government can call a true thing dangerous, and never pass a single law. They named the danger “malinformation” — true, but inconvenient. The First Amendment…

The Fourteenth Amendment promised equal protection in 1868. For a century, “equal” was bent to mean “separate,” then “sorted.” In 2023, the Supreme Court returned…