Civility protects the processes that give everyone a voice and a chance to participate. Disagreement, even when passionate or ...

These rights are increasingly at risk. Federal Judge William G. Young argued in a recent ruling that the Trump administration ...

President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to ban vote-by-mail through executive order have drawn sharp constitutional ...

But Mr. Trump will fail in remaking American politics if people and institutions coordinate against him, which is why his ...

Extremists in both major U.S. political parties, MAGA Republicans and uncompromising Democrats, are widening the chasm between Americans to the detriment of the nation.

We the People” – captured the drafters’ intent at the outset that democracy should be a government of, by, and for the people ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The most influential cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, ...

As part of our focus this week on the Court and constitutional law, we are publishing today this essay from Jonathan Mitchell. Readers might be surprised at how much his critique of “judicial ...

Led by Roberts, the court ruled for Trump and declared for the first time that presidents were immune from being prosecuted ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." ...

On Wednesday, Yale Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Amar introduced his new book, “Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920,” at Brown’s annual Constitution Day Event. The ...

The theory of our Constitution is that every citizen may speak his mind and every newspaper express its view on matters of ...