Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

We cannot allow other companies to copy our products and infringe our patents.

A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.