Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with Jill Lepore, author of ...

This month, Augustana College in Rock Island is celebrating their 150th anniversary being located in Rock Island, Illinois where the campus now sits, overlooking the mighty Mississippi River.

Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and ...

Laws govern people; constitutions govern governments. Legislatures write laws; constitutional conventions write constitutions ...

It is easy to default into hyperbole when the state of the international trading system is uncertain. Pundits have proclaimed for years that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is dead, and yet its ...

Fred Miller II didn’t know it then, but the $50 model ship he bought at age 9 would become more than just a childhood obsession – it charted a course straight into the future. Back in 1970, Miller ...