Lindsay M. Chervinsky

In sending military aid to Ukraine, America’s values and security interests are aligned.

How should a republic honor its leaders?

The Constitution meant for Congress to pass bills by a simple majority. But the process has changed over the decades.

Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.

Washington supported a much more limited conception of executive privilege.

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

It was a lesson they'd learned from experience.

George Washington knew the perils of letting scandals linger.

Of all the precedents the first president set, this is one of his most overlooked — and most important.