Jedediah Britton-Purdy

American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.

A political history of the present moment.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

The way to address politicization in the courts is not de-politicization but counter-politicization.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

The surprising persistence of Henry David Thoreau.

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.