The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide. That simple fact is what allowed John Edwards to beat the charges against him. Prosecutors offered a great deal of evidence that ...

Primary elections made John Kerry the Presidential nominee months ago and it's been weeks since he picked John Edwards as his running mate, so what's the value of holding a party convention at all? Is ...

The prosecution has rested in a case that should never have been brought: the ghastly soap opera better known as the criminal trial of John Edwards. The testimony has been salacious, mesmerizing and ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America The cringe-inducing low point of the John Edwards trial so far was when a campaign ...

Well, this is the end of it. Unless someone comes up with a whole new narrative about something John Edwards did to break the law, his legal troubles are over. The Justice Department decided to drop ...

The R&B soul singer was the last founding member of a famous vocal group responsible for several 1970s classics. Prosecutors will not seek to retry Edwards on the five unresolved counts, according to ...

Last Wednesday was a rough day. I woke up to the harsh reality that the former North Carolina senator was going to drop out of the race for the nomination. Simply put, I'm sad but proud. The largest ...