Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate ...

On the one hand, we have a long letter (“Be thankful to ICE”) from top officials in Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U ...

Today’s Supreme Court, controlled by justices more solidly conservative than Kennedy, has permitted greater mixing of church and state, through a coach’s prayers at public school football games, ...

Stephen Miller was apparently calling the shots in the Trump administration’s lethal military strikes on Venezuelan boats ...

President Donald Trump’s new plan to stop Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians involves handing himself total control of ...

Many provisions of the nation’s founding charter have taken on new significance as the president tests the limits of his power.

That census data determines how many seats in the House of Representatives each state receives, as well as its share of ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a right-wing Republican from Georgia, is no longer a team player for Republicans in Congress.

Explore how the First Amendment protects free speech, its limits in schools, and the balance between educator rights, workplace policy, and accountability.

By Ken Burns and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger President Trump’s threats to democracy have prompted a number ...

In Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he praised democracy as a government, noting the principles of liberty and equality ...

That framework has been in jeopardy since Trump returned to power in January. A legitimacy crisis occurs when citizens no longer see the government as rightfully wielding authority, either because ...