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Scott Greenberger on The Forsaken Founder: Gouverneur Morris
Can Article V Conventions Advance Constitutional Reform?
David O. Stewart on The Democracy We Must Keep
Previewing the Supreme Court’s 2026-2027 Term
Frederick Douglass and Free Speech
The Past, Present, and Future of the Second Amendment
William Magnuson on The Just and the Good: How Law Made the Western World
The State of Free Speech in 2026
Mary Sarah Bilder on the Origins of the Bill of Rights
Chatrie and the Future of the Fourth Amendment
Fergus Bordewich on Centennial and the Great Fair of 1876
Rosemarie Zagarri on The Declaration’s Grievances
What the 2025-2026 Supreme Court Term Revealed About the Roberts Court
Free Speech in a Changing World
Does Article II of the Constitution Grant the President Power to Fire Anyone in the Executive Branch?
Civil Discourse and the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court and Executive Power
The Supreme Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship
The Ideas at the Heart of the Declaration and the Constitution
Eric Slauter on The Declaration’s Promises
Carol Berkin on the Declaration’s lesser-known signers
Justice Stephen Breyer on The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals
David Armitage on the Declaration’s Influence Around the World
Michael Auslin on National Treasure
Jonathan Adler and Stephen Vladeck Debate the Use of the “Shadow Docket” on the Roberts Court
Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Congressional Map
Sarah Isgur on Last Branch Standing
Revolutionary State Constitutions
Women and the American Revolution
Emily Sneff on When the Declaration of Independence Was News
Madison's Vision and Revisions: Looking Back on the Constitution's Father
Ellen DuBois on the Revolutionary Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Revolutionary Lives of Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren
What is the Constitutional Balance of War Powers Between Congress and the President?
NCC Revisited: Women and the American Idea
Supreme Court Rules Trump’s Tariffs Unlawful Under IEEPA
Juan Williams on the Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
Thomas Paine and the 250th Anniversary of Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality
Best of 2025: Michael Lewis on Who Is Government?
The Lost Founder: James Wilson
The Story of the U.S. Constitution: Past and Present
Kathleen DuVal on Native Nations
William F. Buckley and the Intellectual History of American Conservatism
The Constitutional Legacy of Justice Robert Jackson
Ed Larson on Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
Can President Trump Fire a Federal Trade Commissioner Without Cause?
Amending the Constitution and the Article V Project
From Pursuit: Silence in Order to Listen
Eric Foner on Our Fragile Freedoms
Walter Isaacson on the Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Are Trump’s Tariffs Lawful?
Alexander Hamilton: Closet Monarchist or Visionary Nationalist?
The Pursuit of Liberty: A Conversation with Jeffrey Rosen and Jeffrey Goldberg
The Dinner Party that Defined America
Can President Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act Over the Objections of State Governors?
Do Bans on Conversion Therapy Violate the First Amendment?
What Is the Legacy of the Roberts Court on Its 20th Anniversary?
Can Government Officials Pressure Private Companies and Universities to Restrict Speech?
A Conversation with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on ‘Listening to the Law’
Introducing Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness
Can President Trump Fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook?
The History and Future of Partisan Gerrymandering in America
A Conversation on America’s 250th
Is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Unconstitutional?
The Oldest Constitutional Question
The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
W.E.B. Du Bois and His Impact on America
Can President Trump unilaterally lay off 1,400 Department of Education employees?
Covering the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Term Roundup
Unpacking the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti
Can President Trump Federalize the California National Guard?
Executive Authority: Presidential Power From America’s Founding to Today
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
The History of Jews in the American South
Executive Power in the Trump Era
The Legacy of Justice Souter
The Presidential Pardon Power
Are Religious Charter Schools Constitutional?
The Future of Birthright Citizenship
The Day the Revolution Began
Do the Trump Tariffs Violate the Constitution?
Judges on Judicial Independence
Who Is Government?
Deportations and the Law
Is DOGE Breaking the Law?
The State of Partisanship
The Supreme Court and the Trump Administration
How Powerful is the President?
The 14th Amendment and the History of Reconstruction
President Trump’s Executive Orders
What the Black Intellectual Tradition Can Teach Us About American Democracy
My Fellow Americans: Presidents and their Inaugural Addresses
Can Texas Require Age Verification on Adult Sites?
The Future of TikTok
For or Against Constitutional Originalism?
The Life and Constitutional Legacy of Gouverneur Morris
The Meese Revolution
How Religious Were the Founders?