The president-elect demanded that the next Republican leader of the Senate agree to allow him to push through at least some ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

Some have argued that this variation and decentralization could, in the event of another contested result, pose a danger to ...

The framers of our Constitution expected these divisions. They called them “factions.” James Madison discussed this problem ...

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They sulked after the Civil War and they sulked some more during the decades of Democratic dominance after the Great ...

That was the true message of Trump’s victory. K. Ward Cummings is an essayist and social critic. He lives in Baltimore.

The United States does not have a state religion and does not force religion of any kind onto the people living here.

I still believe Jefferson and Washington, though flawed, were highly evolved for their time. I also believe that if every ...

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