As the Ukraine War drags on, the countries on each side appear politically entrenched. Vladimir Putin lectures the world that Ukraine is rightfully Russian, while at least for now, much of the world ...

It was about five years ago that I began thinking about a special issue of Democracy on the Constitution. I was frustrated with the Electoral College and the Senate even then, which led me to do some ...

It is almost axiomatic that authoritarian (or “would be” authoritarian) leaders are innately hostile to free and open universities. Consider, for instance, the obsessive preoccupation over much of the ...

Two days before the election, a Trump car caravan collided with Biden supporters and social justice advocates in front of the now graffiti-covered statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia.

The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation—1760-1840 By Akhil Amar • Basic Books • 2021 • 832 pages • $40 Ben Franklin famously told a questioner as he left Philadelphia’s ...

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

The Inflation Reduction Act, popularly called the IRA, turned one on August 16. As a result of the law, the federal government may spend, over the next decade, nearly $1 trillion to support ...

Before a police shooting makes headlines, before the shooting ever happens, there is the moment of contact between the police officer and the eventual victim. Sometimes the officer is responding to a ...

Proposals for constitutional reform are afoot in ways that I have not seen in my lifetime. All of this activity reflects a fear: the age of Trump, with its relentless populist assault, and its rule-by ...

Financial markets have had one of the most tumultuous winters in more than a decade. Last November, we witnessed the collapse of FTX, once seen as the model for relatively safe crypto businesses.

Imagine a world where the information environment is a thriving hub of diverse ideas, where information flows freely but responsibly, and where digital platforms prioritize the public good, not just ...

Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”? As one of the two main players in American politics, they not only antedate their adversaries by at least a ...