(THE CONVERSATION) One year after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a pattern emerges. Across dozens of executive orders, ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

"When you begin to politicize the judiciary, you lose the guardrails that the framers of the Constitution put in place in the ...

From military crackdowns to silencing dissent, this Constitution Day reminds us all that we must fight to uphold our rights and preserve the rule of law. In 1952, seven years after the end of the ...

Jennifer A. Serafyn is a lawyer in Boston and the former chief of the Civil Rights Unit at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. After nearly 10 years, the civil rights unit at ...

When you look at it, it is hard to tell if the White House, the Department of Justice and the NAACP are merely a collective sign of the times or the reasons why the times are sadly changing. Over the ...

U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

“We the People of the United States …” These memorable words start the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which was signed 238 years ago by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

Like the civil rights movement itself, the federal holiday didn't come together seamlessly. It wasn't officially adopted until 15 years after King's assassination.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Civil rights advocacy groups on Friday asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Justice Department from shuttering a 1960s-era office that was tasked with quelling racial and ...