Alexander Hamilton

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

Is Trump's power as president becoming just what the Founders feared?

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.

In the early 1800s, David Hosack created one of the nation's first botanical gardens to further his pioneering medical research.

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”

The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.

A review of a "The Low Road," a “mordantly anti-Hamiltonian” play that made its debut at New York's Public Theater this spring.

The Founders feared democracy and didn't think too highly of "the people".

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

A republic needs a legislature that can handle such tasks. We don’t have one.

It’s not enough to bring the articles of impeachment against an official – you have to convict them, too.

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?

It’s our democracy’s ultimate weapon for self-defense. But does intense political opposition justify its use?