The amount of space TIME used trying to mislead us shows how important the court really is.

What can the UAW do with $50 billion?

Is there a shortage of conflict in the world today, that we need to dredge up past wrongs?

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

In recent years, the dream of home ownership has gotten farther and farther out of reach, as house prices have escalated. According to a recent study, the primary cause is excessive zoning laws - that is, government over-regulation.

Inspecting IDs is a waste of time and money, but it's ideal from the bureaucratic point of view because it doesn't solve the problem.

It is unfair, and it is unconstitutional.

Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.

"It is the duty of every officer of His Majesty's Navy, to discharge powder and shot in the general direction of the enemy."

Brazil serves as an object lesson in how government incompetence - not greed, not really bribery even, certainly not totalitarianism, just simple incompetence - can make life difficult on an otherwise free and vibrant economy.