It seems that we sometimes forget the long struggle and the hard-won gains of the social rights movement.

Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz engaged in a notably cordial and substantive debate, demonstrating a level of policy discussion that many observers, including myself, did not anticipate.

In Federalist 16, Hamilton continued the argument he made in 15 and raises the stakes.

1. How secure is mail-in balloting?

Absentee voting by mail is secure.

Of all the subjects at the forefront of this year’s presidential campaign, we do not hear much about foreign policy.

The challenges of a lack of union, especially a problem in trade and commerce and security, occupied Publius in essays 11-14; in the subsequent nine essays thoughts concerning the crisis of union achieve a heightened clarity.

Nellie Bowles, author of Morning After the Revolution (2024), loves San Francisco.

In an interview that had him reflecting back over his life and political career, Gerald Ford was once asked to name his greatest regret.

Madison begins Federalist 14 by restating the arguments made in the first 13 papers

Presidential transitions have taken place since Washington passed the baton to Adams. Many of these transitions were smooth and straightforward, but more than a few were far from stress-free.

A few years ago now, Sheryl Sandburg of Facebook wrote a book called Lean In, which I certainly did not read, since I am a respectable academic and people like me do not read best-selling self-help books by business gurus, especially when the business is social media.

Americans are like members of a quarrelsome family, so intent on arguing their petty grievances around the kitchen table that they don’t smell the rising smoke from the oven.

If you want to understand our contemporary politics and culture, you must have a working knowledge of the major revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

In March of 1785 the Continental Congress entertained a motion to amend section 9 of the Articles of Confederation, giving Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign powers and among the states.

Election season in the United States. For even the most politically-involved Americans, the time between January and November every four years is filled with heightened cortisol levels…

Having dealt with the disease of faction attendant to republican forms of government, Hamilton, in Federalist #11 returns to the issue of unity.

Since the populist surge that gave us Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump, politics in the Western world has polarized into a distinctive stalemate

The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13 is a stark reminder that the specter of political violence casts a long shadow over our democratic ideals.

In my last essay, part 1 of a reflection Federalist #10, I dealt with Madison’s definition of faction.

One of the greatest challenges facing the administration of US President Gerald Ford when he assumed office in 1974 was the poor state of the US economy, which was suffering from a condition dubbed stagflation – stagnation and inflation.