The status of a state-level environmental permit remains unclear. Developers are seeking a waiver for a permit in New York, ...

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Harvard history professor Jill Lepore about the state of the U.S. Constitution, 236 years after its ratification. This week marks 236 years since the United States ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution closes a significant chapter in its 157-year history on Wednesday. The newspaper printed its ...

Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and ...

When James Madison and his fellow statesmen drafted the Constitution, they created our system of government, with its checks, balances and sometimes awkward compromises. The laws of the United States ...

Today is Constitution Day, which marks the anniversary of the document’s signing in 1787, after four months of strenuous debate in Philadelphia. Since 2004, public schools have been required to devote ...

The way United States Constitution of 1789 speaks about money has long puzzled observers. Why does it speak so little about money, people ask, and when it does treat the subject, why the weird ...

The White House website always undergoes a renovation when a president first takes office. The removal of the Constitution page may have been in error, or perhaps only temporary. As the transition ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett explains why she voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, calling the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling ...

A federal appeals court judge who was included on U.S. President Donald Trump's short list of potential Supreme Court ...

One of my favourite habits as a diligent newspaper reader has been to browse the end-of-year reading lists published by leading dailies. These lists typically r ...