Alexander Hamilton

We cannot divorce the independence of the executive branch from its substance.

The 1790s debate shows that, even when they aim at moral goods, tariffs abet cronyism and corruption.

The populist turn in our politics is best understood as a revival of old categories of political economy.

USAID grants may have cracked constitutional spending limits.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

America’s only successful insurrection.

While letting justices serve during “good behavior” was designed to encourage impartiality, it now tends to promote the opposite effect.

Although the American tradition is broadly liberal, it is best understood as divided between two schools: classical and managerial liberalism.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

A grand strategy for a turbulent world.

Federal lighthouses symbolized a vigorous young nation barreling toward maturity.

A foundational flaw of the United States.

Interposition was a claim that American federalism needed to preserve some balance between state and national authority.

1796, the first contested presidential election.

The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?

A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.