Power

The candidate’s years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.

During the Civil War, surrendering was an honorable way of accepting defeat — under the right circumstances.

Admiral William D. Leahy was instrumental in bringing the Allies together to agree upon the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

I reviewed publications from the founding era, and discovered that “executive power” doesn’t imply what most scholars thought.

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The plastic industry has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it selling it.