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 ...

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 ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American society. It protects freedom of conscience, allowing individuals to live ...

The United States of America, as it’s called today, had only been known up to that point as the “United Colonies.” A resolution presented to the Continental Congress in June 1776 stated “these United ...

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 ...

In Hebrew, the word is anu, a derivative of the word “we.” Rarely does one shed a tear going to a museum. The last time this ...