When former President Donald Trump began the review process for nominating a Supreme Court justice in 2017, Leonard Leo — the former vice president and current co-chairman of the Federalist Society — ...

As far back as the 1870s, The Nation opposed the existence of the Electoral College as "so grotesque as to be almost ...

As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning ...

Sean Davis, a co-founder of pro-Trump website The Federalist, claimed that if former President Donald Trump doesn’t win the White House it’s proof that the entire electoral process is a ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can ...

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It is now conceded on all sides that the laws relating to civil causes were never better executed than at present. It is confessed by a warm federalist in answer to mr. Gerry’s sensible letter, that ...

We are no different; only our delusion is different. Neither the Constitution, nor Preamble, professes any illusion of ...

The Federalist Papers are the 85 articles and essays James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay published arguing for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the full replacement of the ...

In the wake of the spring Pro-Palestinian protests, some Texas lawmakers have suggested they want to ban face coverings at ...

Discussions will be based on readings from primary sources including John Locke, the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of ...

For Thanksgiving, I published a short history of Jefferson’s and his Democrats’ reaction to John Adams’ fearmongering for ...