Gautham Rao

A pair of lawsuits claim that courts were a strong check against federal agency power in early America, but history shows otherwise.

On the origins of the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to call on federal troops and state militias to put down insurrections.

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

How profit motives have driven two centuries of American gun laws.

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.