The following is an English translation of El Nacional's interview with AEI fellow Roger Noriega, who told the Venezuelan newpaper that its government is deeply involved in the drug trade but he has "never heard of a witness who is in a better position to bear witness to the criminal activities of dozens of officials in the highest levels of that government."

Venezuela's impeached supreme court justice, Judge Eladio Aponte-Aponte describes a judicial system that is systematically corrupted by Chávista cronies and military leaders who have made billions of dollars trafficking in cocaine and laundering the proceeds of an international criminal syndicate.

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In the past three decades, a mounting wave of litigation has swept the United States, prompting Newsweek to describe America as “lawsuit hell.” Fear of litigation has reduced innovation, menaced the health-care industry, driven manufacturers out of lawsuit-prone specialties,...

Sam Alito is no John Roberts.What is the difference? Roberts respects Congress and its constitutional primacy; Alito shows serious signs that he does not.

The Obama administration refused to defend me against the lawsuit filed for José Padilla. Now even the liberal Ninth Circuit agrees the suit was frivolous.

Democrats complained about difficulties that President Clinton faced in confirming judges; now Republicans are complaining about the delays faced by President George W.Bush.

America's lawsuit culture is transforming our society, but there's been little focus on why litigation spun out of control over the last 30 years.

National Mortgage News (December 19) asks, "Can Regulators Prevent the Next Systemic Risk Crisis?" Probably not.  Certainly not, if they can't even define the central term, "systemic risk."  As Donna Borak writes, "The chief obstacle to heading off systemic risk turns out to be agreeing on a definition for...