A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

The brutal reviews are in. Here’s an updating roundup highlighting the sharpest (and meanest) commentary about Melania Trump’s new film.

When the idea of globalization was first thrown open to the whole world, the objective was to link the world socio-economically, politico-culturally, and technologically-driven in such a way that free ...

The United States secured the third-largest territorial acquisition in its history after a U.S. diplomat defied the president ...

Today marks the 178th anniversary of our Nation’s triumph in the Mexican-American War—a legendary victory that secured the American Southwest, reasserted ...

A bipartisan spending deal couldn’t clear Congress in time to prevent a lapse in federal funding for some departments. The ...

Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “There are no shortcuts in evolution,” but he wasn’t considering what verbicide does to the ...

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Farmers in the U.S. have grown cannabis since the 1600s — but policymakers are still figuring out how to regulate two famous types of Cannabis sativa. A historian calls the plant "incredibly cryptic." ...