Readers react to an award for a law student’s essay claiming that the rights recognized in the Constitution apply only to white people. Also: Climate change.

The phrase "the first duty of society is justice" is thought to have been originally presented by Alexander Hamilton, one of ...

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant ...

Twelve score and nine years ago, oppressed, arrogant and righteous land-owners blazed a trail that even Bob Frost would have had reservations choosing. The grand experiment in self-governance began an ...

The Big Beautiful Bill proposes devastating cuts to clean energy, climate investments, worker protections and infrastructure.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, a Barack Obama appointee, ruled the executive order applied to a class of immigrants ...

As Independence Day approaches, it’s worth remembering that America’s Founding Fathers weren’t just fiery revolutionaries — ...

Founding Father and fourth President of the United States, James Madison, in Federalist Paper number 47, wrote about the need for separation of powers among the branches of the federal ...

So the Constitution was written with an eye toward prohibiting corruption. The Foreign Emoluments Clause specifically ...

Jon Meacham — the Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian — will be out Tuesday with an introduction for a new Random ...

I wrote about the New York Times expose concerning the grading of a student seminar paper at the University of Florida. I've now had a chance to read the paper. First, from a technical perspective, ...

The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Last week I mentioned that I was reading Tokyo These Days, a manga about the production of a ...