Friday was Constitution Day by act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon reflection it is a ...

President Trump, once a casino owner and always a man in search of his next deal, is fond of a poker analogy when sizing up partners and adversaries. “We have much bigger and better cards than they do ...

Constitution Day was this week, established by an act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, once a casino owner and always a man in search of his next deal, is fond of a poker analogy when sizing up partners and adversaries. The phrase offers a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record 62% of Americans say the federal government has too much power, according to a new Gallup survey. That figure marks the highest level since Gallup began tracking the ...

President Donald Trump recently canceled public-employee union contracts for thousands of federal workers. The employees worked in agencies tied to national security, allowing Trump to invoke a ...

As the author of a book called Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, I naturally took an interest when Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch published a book late last year ...

After President Donald Trump wrongly suggested that Social Security funds were going to millions of dead people, his administration spent weeks revamping the agency’s database. When Trump seized on a ...

That’s why Jefferson wrote of “unalienable Rights.” Madison echoed that government was to be “a protector, not a giver, of liberty.” This principle distinguishes the American republic from both ...

Freedom of speech is fundamentally about protecting people from government. The First Amendment is designed to prevent the government, not private actors, from suppressing speech. This is because ...