Power

As the United States marks 250 years, an older Indigenous system of women-led governance offers a radically different blueprint for power and responsibility.

At the end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming lawmakers’ power to declare war – not the president.

Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?

Thomas Jefferson endured deep personal loss and political strife, yet held faith in future generations to fulfill America’s ideals despite his flaws.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

Parliament's 1774 revocation of Massachusetts's charter and the representative government it enshrined was the last straw for many colonists in Worcester.

For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs.

Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.

What lessons can we take from Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War?

A new book takes a fresh look at a well-studied political figure, showing him to be a master of party politics.

They prophesied the downfall of modern liberalism.

Great leaders succeed by choosing who else leads.

He ran for President twice on the concerns that still define American political life—inequality, affordability, and vanishing jobs.

How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

From Jack the Ripper to Nixon and Watergate to Trump and Epstein, coverups have frequently roiled political history.

A conversation about the afterlives of Cold War liberalism, which justified illiberal acts in the name of defending liberalism.

New laws mandating Ten Commandments displays may be upheld via originalism, despite the Constitution’s historically secular foundations.

Born in the Jim Crow south, he dedicated his long career to fighting for economic justice for all.

The writers of the Constitution sought an approach that balanced control between the states and the federal government.

Escaping the two-party doom loop.

To some cops and their unions, the federal invasions of American cities are a chance to undercut the already fraying democratic constraints on police power.

Once upon a brief time, there was consensus around social progress. But the backlash began almost immediately—and has been with us ever since.

The meaning of “revolution” has shifted between feared upheaval and hopeful progress, and its promises often bring violence and mixed results.

The fundamental problem of the present is complicity.

Conservatism faces a populist shift, but traditional Ronald Reagan-era ideas of growth, limited government, and originalism remain the preferred path.

An examination of Alex Pretti’s killing by ICE to challenge the idea that the Second Amendment safeguards liberty and deters government tyranny.

Matthew Pinsker reveals how the 16th president carefully built a partisan base essential to his rise.

The Iran-Contra affair was a turning point in U.S. history, one that normalized the erosion of key democratic principles and helped birth our current disorder.

Article II of the Constitution offered significant concessions to those who preferred a more plural executive.