“I’m not going to be able to do anything more… this is my only option,” a single working-mother of three told a phone counselor at the...

The word “education” appears in the constitutions of 185 of the 193 recognized states in the world. Of the eight countries that do not...

Edwin Meese III was the US Attorney General under Ronald Reagan (1985-1988) and one of the contemporary founders of originalism. In 2019,...

If there is one enduring legacy of American democracy, it is a profound commitment to preventing people from voting. Under the...

Jesse Wegman is a member of The New York Times editorial board, where he writes editorials on the Supreme Court and legal affairs. He...

*Part one of this interview is located here. David Thibodeau is a survivor of the 1993 siege against Mount Carmel, the Branch Davidian...

In February 2019, a federal judge in Texas ruled that it’s unconstitutional for women not to be required to register for the Selective...

Immediately after the terror attacks of 9/11, Congress quickly passed the PATRIOT Act to strengthen counterterrorism efforts across the...

On September 7, 1774, the Founding Fathers opened the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia with the prayer “O God of wisdom...

On September 2, 2016, thousands of American pastors and across the country took to their pulpits as part of the annual “Pulpit Freedom...

In early September, the Twitter account of Texas Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “liked” a post containing...

While presidential term limits guaranteed by the United States Constitution are a key function of American democracy, this concept isn’t...

The Justice Department under President Obama pursued civil rights cases in an aggressive manner, making it perhaps the most activist...

Rome wasn’t built in a day. The reconstruction of modern Italy, likewise, has been slow and taxing. Former Prime Minister and billionaire...

On February 13, 2016, the United States legal realm lost an influential and revered icon. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s...

Political tremors are nothing new to Nepal. As the country has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past few decades, altercations...

Of all the countries affected by the Arab Spring, Tunisia has long been lauded as the movement’s one success. When Mohammed Bouazizi, a...

Although it recently snowed in Cairo for the first time in over 112 years, an Arab spring may still be blooming, with the new Tunisian...

Increased citizen participation in government processes is a good thing – most of the time. Citizens interacting with the executive...

So much has been written recently about America’s 113th Congress. More specifically, so much has been written about a government...