Crews install portraits of state capitol buildings ahead of the National Conference of State Legislatures annual summit on Aug. 4 in Boston. NCSL has asked the Trump administration…
Read more State lawmakers ask Trump administration to end its review of state regsDonald Trump has long detested Barack Obama and sought to present himself as the opposite of his presidential predecessor in every way. But in his takeover of the…
Read more Trump Repeats Obama’s MistakeThe American experiment with constitutional democracy is in grave peril. If Donald Trump becomes president again, fighting to preserve U.S. constitutional democracy through his second term will require…
Read more Amending the Constitution Is Impossible Until Suddenly It’s NotThe Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in…
Read more How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction AliveWhen Representative Mike Johnson arrived in Congress in 2017, he received an important piece of advice from a fellow Louisianan, Representative Steve Scalise. “Be careful about your early…
Read more A Speaker Without Enemies—For NowAcross multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the…
Read more The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning PointIn a normal year, the March for Life would begin somewhere along the National Mall. The cavalcade of anti-abortion activists in Washington, D.C., would wind around museums and…
Read more What Winning Did to the Anti-abortion MovementEven before Donald Trump announced he was seeking the presidency again, last week’s election results showed Republicans how difficult it will be to escape the former president’s gravitational…
Read more Is Trump Still a Viable Candidate? Yes and No.Kristen McDonald Rivet let out a big, slightly rueful laugh. “I was underestimating the level of national attention this race was going to get,” she told me. “In…
Read more The Next Presidential Election Is Happening Right Now in the StatesStarting in 2008, a widely circulated conspiracy theory was that Barack Obama was not actually born in America. Strivers on the political right scrounged around to try to…
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