The likely confirmation of Sotomayor and the possibility of future Obama appointments could change the balance on a court that has been closely divided on many major cases. But that seems unlikely to change the thrust of Thomas' jurisprudence.

Fortunately, new leadership is on the way. Soon, perhaps, investors and shareholders will be allowed to make their own decisions.

The downfall of WorldCom is just the latest in a series of calamities that has befallen U.S. telecommunications companies in the past two years.

Clarence Thomas' memoir, My Grandfather's Son, portrays a man of understanding and humility.

Has the Class Action Fairness Act curbed abusive class actions, and will it do so in the future?

Throughout his career, Robert Kagan has been a severe critic of foreign policy realists who emphasize the "balance of power" at the expense of morality, ideology, and principle. Yet, in this book Kagan's emphasis is mostly on power, not morality or democracy.

The full extent of the contemporary Court's dereliction at the structure front appears in sharpest relief against the purest structure court in American history: the Court of the Gilded Age.