Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding ...

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

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

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s. Juneteenth ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States of America, as it’s called today, had only been known up to that point as the “United Colonies.” A ...