Mark Kogan

Make no mistake, there is no turning back now. The way the government makes laws is about to change forever. On Friday, the Senate voted 54-45 to confirm Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia's death in…

(Editor's note: In the aftermath of the election, many of Mic's readers have asked what they can do to take action and lend support to the causes they care about, so we turned to our generation's leading activists and crowdsourced their solutions.…

On Feb. 1, Republicans and Democrats in the state of Iowa will head to the caucuses in the first contest of the 2016 presidential nomination process. But if either party had any sense left in them, they would end the tradition of the Iowa caucuses…

In the wake of the San Bernardino, California, shooting and the growing fears of the shooters' links to Islamic terrorism, Democrats have taken to the airwaves to blast Republicans for refusing to prohibit individuals on the no-fly list from…

On Oct. 24, 1991, my family and I got off a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and were greeted by men with assault rifles. I was almost 5 years old, and soaring from the excitement of my first plane ride. I hadn't slept a…

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is going out with a bang. The White House and congressional negotiators announced Monday they had reached an agreement on a budget deal to avert a government shutdown and raise the nation's debt limit. The deal would…

Nearly a week after being released from jail, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis returned to work on Monday, promising to neither authorize nor interfere with the issuance of marriage certificates to same sex couples in Rowan County.   Davis' return was…

On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected a second challenge to President Barack Obama's signature health care law, holding that the federal government can set up subsidized exchanges in states that failed to create their own. The 6-3 ruling in King…

On Sunday night, controversial elements of the Patriot Act were allowed to expire for the first time since its passage following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose procedural maneuvers prevented the Senate from renewing the…

The Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature piece of legislation, made its second appearance before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. After pointed questions from the nine justices that demonstrated a sharply split court, the outcome of…

For a guy whose party lost both the House of Representatives and the Senate less than 80 days ago, President Barack Obama sure didn't act like it when he delivered his sixth and second-to-last State of the Union on Tuesday night. Addressing an…

As Parisians awoke Wednesday to an attack on a controversial institution, the world awoke to an attack on the free press. Masked gunmen stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, killing 12 people in apparent…

Bloodbath. Landslide. Slaughter. Blowout. Clown show. Red Wedding. Whatever you want to call it, Tuesday was a tough night for Democrats, as Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to increase their lead in the House of Representatives and…

This is a guest post by Mark Kogan, a lawyer in Washington, D.C. His academic publications include legal commentary on lawyers' speech, fair trial and the First Amendment. The shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer…

Following a leaked recording of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's racist comments to his girlfriend, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a lifetime ban against Sterling on Tuesday. Citing his racist remarks, Silver promised to do…

In the biggest campaign finance decision since Citizen’s United, the Supreme Court Wednesday struck down aggregate limits on federal campaign donations in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, creating the potential for big money donors to make…

Think President Barack Obama’s decision to skip the Olympics is a snub to Vladimir Putin and Russia’s LGBT policies? Think again. While there is certainly no love lost between Obama and Russian Putin, the decision by the White House to send zero…

Last Veteran’s Day, CNN’s chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper released The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, telling the story of Combat Outpost Keating — a remote American outpost in the Hindu Kush mountains of eastern Afghanistan.…

After nearly 17 days of shutdown costing the American economy roughly $2.4 billion, the Republicans in the House have decided that they’ve had enough and are ready to accept what the rest of us knew to be true weeks ago — that shutting down the…