There is no recourse to recover damages against federal actors, no matter how serious the violation of federal constitutional ...

Trumpism and the Department of Government Efficiency are returning American society to a primitive state of nature.

President Donald Trump said last month that there are “methods” by which he could remain in office for a third term, skirting the two-term limit set in the U.S. Constitution nearly 75 years ago. But ...

He has scheduled 250 days of campaigning outside of Georgia and so far is pleased at the response. When he was a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics last spring, former U.S. Sen. David Pryor ...

The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, ratified after the Civil War, addressed slavery, citizenship and voting rights. Human rights in the U.S. have advanced and regressed, but markedly improved ...

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

Q: Why didn’t the 13th Amendment forbid forced labor in prisons? Because former slave states had to ratify the 1865 amendment, it was the product of compromise. At the time, plantations and ...

Just ten years after construction was completed—and months before the 13th Amendment was ratified, marking the abolition of slavery—the West Wing of the Castle went up in flames. A stove that ...