A politically powerful opponent of birthright citizenship railed that the United States cannot “give up the right” to “expel” ...

Readers grapple with a recent Ideas piece that examined how the First Amendment has fostered, and protected, more "reckless" speech than "fearless" speech.

Christian nationalism had a lasting impact on the presidential oath of office: There is no evidence George Washington added ...

The phrase ‘so help me God’ is believed to be a part of the presidential oath ever since George Washington is said to have ...

President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House later this month, but some Americans may not know that there is a precise moment when that transition of power takes place.

The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who ...

Early US elites drafted the Constitution to check democratic uprisings that threatened the power of the ruling class. The ...

The Supreme Court could weigh in during Trump’s second term on his stated priority to eliminate the long-standing constitutional protection.

The president of the United States is the country’s chief law-enforcement officer and the symbol of national authority and ...

The certification saw Kamala Harris presiding over her own defeat. Democrats emphasized the contrast to what happened at the ...

Many Americans have never experienced a “good economy,” if a good economy is defined as one in which an individual can ...