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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

For most of the 1950s, the U.S. Secretary of State and the Director of the CIA were brothers, running diplomacy and covert ...


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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a tele–town hall this week as part of his Senate campaign, and one caller decided to skip the small talk. “Hi Paxton, nice to meet you,” she began, sweetly. “I’m just wondering — why did you cheat on your wife?”

Honestly? Same.

Here’s what passes for an answer from a sitting attorney general:

Um, I’m not go...


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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.

The quality of legal education is inseparable from the quality of justice in America. As legal education and the profession confront a period of rapid change, AALS believes it is essential ...


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When Benito Mussolini sent his followers to march on the capital in 1922, he fully expected to be thrown in jail (or more) for his attempted coup. Instead, he was asked to become prime minister. Mussolini himself stayed in Milan, allowing him to cultivate the sort of probable deniability that might lead someone to, I don’t know, retire to the White House and refuse for hours ...


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