CHICAGO — With long-gestating antitrust cases against Google, Apple and Amazon coming to fruition, many observers think that 2024 could be a turning point for Big Tech.

CHICAGO — Americans have worried about their presidents becoming dictators (or, in the old days, tyrants) ever since the Unites States was founded.

CHICAGO — Now that a Manhattan jury has convicted Donald Trump of falsifying business records in order to cover up a crime – whether it is an election-related or a tax-related crime is not clear — a host of new questions arise.

CHICAGO — This week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision disqualifying him from the ballot for the 2024 presidential election.

 CHICAGO — As the Google antitrust trial winds down, corporate opposition to antitrust reform in the United States is winding up, and not by coincidence.

CHICAGO — A new legal effort to prevent Donald Trump from retaking the presidency next year is afoot.

 CHICAGO — For many Americans, Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles confirm the deeply corrupt and repulsive character of the man. But there is a significant danger that the trials will help Trump rather than hurt him.

 CHICAGO — The indictment of a former president is unprecedented in the United States. But Americans, and the world, should get used to it.

CHICAGO — “The ugly American”, the title of a novel published in 1958 by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, entered the language to refer to boorish American officials abroad who sought to improve the lives of natives without taking the trouble to learn their language, culture o