Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, the author of several best-selling books and the host of the podcast “Revisionist History.” In a three-part series on the podcast, he takes a ...

Regular readers of this column will know that I am a huge fan of casuistry, which got a bad name during the Protestant Reformation, but remains a quintessentially Christian way of applying legal ...

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky came up with a way to avoid the prospective government default should Congress and the White House prove unable to achieve a grand bargain ...

Morgan points out that people are supposed to see proceedings as 'an equation that derives guilty or innocence from the legal information entered,' and forget that there is another way to pursue ...

In May 2001, Torontonians were scandalized when three young Canadian artists videotaped themselves torturing and butchering a stray cat as part of a muddled commentary on the meat-processing industry.

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A provision in the law appears to run afoul of a bedrock element of the Constitution — the limit to but two years on any appropriation for military spending.

A notorious Toronto case of feline torture and execution is analyzed in aptly queasy "Casuistry." Animal rights activists' outcries, dislikable perps' hanging trial by public opinion, and the murky ...