The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, ...

Trump is working to weaponize immigration enforcement to create an increasingly brutal and unaccountable system — one where ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

Alcatraz is in San Francisco Bay off the coast of San Francisco and visible from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for ...

The ACLU of Vermont, which is helping to represent the federal case of Rümeysa Öztürk, said arguments will be heard on Tuesday morning at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to determine ...

Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was ...

Some great TV shows use the American Civil War as a backdrop or as a major narrative pillar. Here are the best ones.

Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On ...

We must refuse the shame that seeks to make us forget what we glimpsed, however briefly, in the streets in 2020, writes ...