One of the core arguments I advance in this series is that as American citizens we have no hope of understanding, much less ...

Some are thrilled by the number of executive actions. Others see it as executive overreach. What is a U.S. president really ...

But for those that wrote in colonial times, anonymity was a matter of personal safety. Criticism of the Crown was treason and came with the risk of arrest, torture, and death. The Federalists donned ...

The Federalist party made great preparations and reserved the meetinghouse as the place for their celebration. An eminent ...

Trump is different. His defiance lies in plain view. There is no dignity. There is no restraint. There is only power. The ...

The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year o ...

In his first week in office, President Trump displayed an unusually expansive vision of executive authority. He challenged ...

Related to Kennedy’s known hostility to pharmaceutical manufacturers is his criticism of vaccines — which was the primary focus of Democrats’ attacks on him. Their questions not only distorted his ...

Alexander Hamilton made a similar point while speaking at the New York ratifying convention ... “This power over the purse,” wrote Madison in Federalist No. 58, “may, in fact, be regarded as the most ...

There’s no question that the pardon powers conferred upon the president in Article II of the Constitution are broad. Our ...