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

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The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that’s made ...

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As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning ...

The Federalist Society, a conservative organization founded at Yale Law School, built a pipeline between law schools and top ...

Forging unity is the ongoing work of American life. After an election, after an arduous legislative process, after more than ...

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

In "Federalist Paper No. 10", James Madison details the harmful nature of factions in democratic republics. He asserts that when majority factions hold power, undesirable policies are easily passed by ...

On Oct. 27, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest recorded Atlantic storms, began a four-day siege of Central America, ...

Later in the episode, Oliver wastes no time turning to the heart of the conservative effort to remake the federal judiciary: the Federalist Society. As unserious as Oliver’s style of political ...

I grew up in a violent home. You name it, it happened, usually more than once. I was also raised Catholic, complete with ...