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Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court ruling against school segregation, was decided in a unanimous vote, 9-0. The court understood that in decisions that mandate significant societal and cultural change, and that will garner significant opposition, the fact of unanimity is in itself a kind of final argument.

A wide-ranging new analysis of congressional-floor speeches finds that political polarization has "exploded" over the past 20 years, and is now "far greater today than at any point in the past." The study, by economists at Stanford and Brown universities and the University of Chicago, analyzed the entirety of the congressional record going back to 1873. The researchers built a sophisticated

Some Ferguson, Mo., schools were closed, a police command center was in place and a St. Louis County grand jury was widely expected to continue its work Monday in determining the fate of the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August.

Police officials and protest organizers have collaborated on rules of engagement. Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of

Sherrod Brown looks in some ways like a very tempting vice presidential pick for Hillary Clinton.

He doesn't have an enormous national profile, but inside the Beltway he's known as a stalwart of the liberal wing of the party's congressional caucus. Unlike Bernie Sanders, he's a loyal party man. But he has a similar disheveled populist anti-fashion to go along with an extensive track