Woodrow Wilson

The genesis of the United Nations came from the nations united as Allies against the Axis powers, but who really pushed the institution into being?

If RFK is confirmed, he is likely to fail for reasons similar to those for past political choices for the cabinet.

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

If you want a clear strategy for winning wars, don’t play a semantic game with the name of the department that’s charged with the strategy’s execution.

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.

Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.

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

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are.

In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.

When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement traces back to 1917.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Think this year’s Democratic convention is going to be nuts? One hundred years ago, Democrats took 103 ballots—and more than two weeks—to choose a candidate.

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

The long history and contemporary relevance of war tax resistance.

But it didn’t work out for their parties.