Unquestionably it was a foundational document for America, calling for unity against Great Britain in the struggle for ...

The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria ...

Although these decrees are nothing new in American government, they must be issued within the scope of a president's ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

The American eschatological impulse to war is to achieve a definite victorious outcome, even when the costly extra effort is ...

FDR’s plan to expand the Supreme Court collapsed after one justice unexpectedly changed his vote, preserving the Court’s size ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel has been shunned by presidents since Barack Obama after it was taken over by Chinese owners.

Kyle MacLachlan reflects on what it was like to play such an iconic role.

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was more tantalizing than illuminating when he recently said, regarding the nation’s ...

The time has come. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is opening its new special exhibition on June 28 ...

Did you ever notice how the weather sneaks into our everyday conversations—and even our history? U.S. Presidents, standing at ...