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Schedule F and the Plan to Make Career Civil Servants Easier to Fire Schedule F would move career federal employees in policy roles into at-will jobs. What the 2020 order did, how it returned in 2025, and what at-will status means for the public. School Vouchers From Milton Friedman to Arizona's Universal Plan The voucher idea began as one economist's thought experiment in 1955; seventy years later Arizona opened public education money to every family, and the bill came due. Seattle's $15 Vote and the Studies That Argued Over It Seattle voted for a $15 minimum wage in 2014, and two university teams reached opposite verdicts on it. What each study found, why they disagreed, and what economists now mostly agree on. Section 230, the 1996 Liability Shield, and the Fight to Rewrite It A 1995 libel ruling against Prodigy pushed Congress to write Section 230. Here is what the law protects, what it never covered, and how the fight to change it splits both parties. Sharon Lavigne, St. James Parish and the Fight Against a Plastics Complex A retired special-education teacher in Louisiana built a faith-based group that took on one of the largest proposed plastics plants in the country. How she did it, and what it teaches organizers. Shelby County v. Holder and the Day Preclearance Went Dark On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court struck the formula behind preclearance. What preclearance did, why the Court ended it, and what changed in the states it had covered. Shelley v. Kraemer and the Racial Covenants Still Written in Old Deeds A Black family bought a St. Louis house in 1945 and was sued by the neighbors. How the 1948 ruling ended court enforcement of racial covenants, and why the words remain in deeds today. Shield Laws and Telehealth Abortion Across State Lines Louisiana indicted a New York doctor in 2025 for mailing abortion pills, and New York refused to hand her over. How shield laws work and why they set up a constitutional collision. South Africa's Genocide Case at the ICJ and What Provisional Measures Mean What the World Court actually ordered in South Africa v. Israel on January 26, 2024, what it did not decide, and how a genocide case moves from emergency orders to a final judgment. South Dakota, Oregon and the Progressive Invention of the Ballot Initiative How South Dakota in 1898 and Oregon's William U'Ren invented the citizen initiative, how the tool works step by step today, and why legislatures keep trying to rein it in. Standing Doctrine, the Gate That Decides Who Gets Into Federal Court Injury, causation and redressability explained through Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, and why the rule about who may sue now shapes environmental, voting and executive-power cases. Starbucks Workers in Buffalo and the Long Road to a First Contract How a 19-8 vote at one Buffalo cafe in December 2021 started a union campaign across hundreds of Starbucks stores, and why a first contract has proved so slow to arrive.