The UK Supreme Court’s ruling voiding Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament is one for the ages — a landmark in British constitutional law of the kind that comes around only once every few centuries. The court’s judgment tried to downplay how astonishing its decision was. But the reality is…

President Donald Trump in a meeting with congressional Democrats on Friday said he was prepared for the partial government shutdown to continue for months — or even years — if he doesn’t get the money he wants for a wall along the Mexican border. It’s not hard to see how that prediction comes true…

It’s too soon to know whether a Chinese researcher who claims to have successfully edited the genomes of newly born twins is telling the truth. But if he is, and if the girls turn out to be healthy and normal, it heralds a significant change in the scientific and ethical status of human gene…

The word-processing error that unintentionally revealed the Justice Department’s sealed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is fascinating, not least because analogous mistakes can be found in texts going all the way back to the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. It also raises important…

A South Carolina foster-care agency has asked the Trump administration to rule that it has a constitutional right to discriminate against non-Protestant and gay parents under the religious-freedom guarantee of the First Amendment. Some evangelical Christians will be upset if the agency doesn’t…

Did the National Enquirer have a right to buy stories about Donald Trump in order not to publish them? And if so, what was the crime in buying Karen McDougal’s report of an affair with now-President Trump — a crime to which Michael Cohen pleaded guilty? These questions have become all the more…