In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. Strong reactions rippled across the United States. The eventual upshot: a ...

The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

In 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On this date, the novel ...

President Donald Trump is hosting Ireland's prime minister, Micheál Martin, for the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration at ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that a scholar argues any ‘lawfare’ against Nixon doesn’t absolve him of transgressions.

Elizabeth Oyer, a former public defender who was appointed as the Justice Department's pardon attorney in April 2022, says ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi is looking into whether Biden administration policies infringe on Americans' right to bear arms.

A constitutional crisis in 1860s Prussia could teach Americans the importance of public participation in democracy.

Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day ...

When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a ...

Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars are law professors at Yale University and the University of Alabama, respectively, and authors ...

Born in 1929 in Columbus, Ohio, Rosser was one of 17 children. As the oldest of the bunch, he was naturally very protective ...