Fifty years ago this month, Beaumont activist Maxine Johnston helped lead the effort to create the Big Thicket National ...

The right to access books and educational materials in public schools and libraries is integral, writes Sonia ...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that ...

and Justice William O. Douglas, because he has supposedly strained court dignity by taking a fourth wife of 23. Knowledgeable court watchers will have to see it to believe it. Even so, a change in ...

Walter C. Carrington '52 yesterday disclosed that the recently learned from Justice William O. Douglas that Douglas would definitely not be a candidate for the presidency in 1952. Carrington ...

Four current U.S. Supreme Court justices have published books while on the bench, two more have deals for forthcoming books, and one retired justice has numerous titles and is still churning out books ...

WNBA and Olympic legend Sue Bird turns 43 and tennis star Naomi Osaka turns 26, among the famous birthdays for Oct. 16.

Whenever he needed to think deeply about a case before the Supreme Court, Associate Justice William O. Douglas would take a long walk on the towpath of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. For Douglas, the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court returns today. One of its most prominent figures, Clarence Thomas, will face pressure to stay on the bench if Harris wins the election.

Garland would not be the first park aficionado on the country’s highest court. Justice William O. Douglas campaigned for protection of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which led to its designation as a ...