Kenneth Tiven

A case spurred by a Republican political campaign is aimed at restoring public schools’ authority to indoctrinate students with Christianity. The Constitutional separation of the Church and State has never prevented Christian religious events in grade schools and high schools in the past.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s liberal wing in dissent while blasting the conservative majority in a recent shadow docket case that limits the ability of states to block projects coming under review by the federal Clean Water Act.

President Joe Biden is making his first court appointment. Will ideologically split political parties treat the nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to a theatrical takedown over issues which have little to do with jurisprudence or judicial temperament?

Told by close advisers in November 2020 that he had lost the election, former US president Donald Trump insisted on lying about this because other advisers told him a plan might work to keep him in the White House.

Russia's invasion of Ukr...

By Kenneth Tiven in Wash...

Biden’s speech this week on the Ukraine crisis was well received by people who usually have nothing good to say about a Democrat, so polarized are the two political parties. Republican senators and conservative pundits were in strange territory compared to their criticism of Biden.

By Kenneth Tiven in Wash...

By Kenneth Tiven in Wash...

I covered the Civil Rights March in Washington, DC for the Antioch College paper, made easier because authorized credentials were issued by a man whose daughter was a classmate. Our reporting team had complete access to everyone and everything, including a pre-event party of the leadership where we found Dr King and Malcolm X in private conversation.