Wisely, the founders, fearing the possibility of re-emerging tyranny, denied the government the unilateral authority to charge or convict citizens of serious crimes. Instead, they vested this power in ...

It’s easy to look at President Donald Trump’s second term and conclude that the less power and reach the federal government has, the better. After all, a smaller government might provide Trump or ...

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at ...

The government is planning to approve a cabinet resolution that would allow it to carry out executive actions and advance legislation without the approval of the Attorney General’s Office. The move ...

As the author of a book called Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, I naturally took an interest when Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch published a book late last year ...

That’s why Jefferson wrote of “unalienable Rights.” Madison echoed that government was to be “a protector, not a giver, of liberty.” This principle distinguishes the American republic from both ...

Freedom of speech is fundamentally about protecting people from government. The First Amendment is designed to prevent the government, not private actors, from suppressing speech. This is because ...

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean ...

These were landslide margins by any standard or definition. Harris lost the national popular vote and was swept across the swing states by President Donald Trump, but she still racked up towering ...

Into this two-century-old dialectic steps Marc J. Dunkelman, a former Democratic Party operative and now Brown University fellow, whose provocative new book, Why Nothing Works, argues that ...