The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation can help us predict how the Supreme Court will likely rule on birthright ...

In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

The Rosenkranz Originalism Conference at Yale Law School centered on the constitutional scholar’s book, which recounts ...

In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the ...

This new volume focuses on how the best minds of the “Second Founding” generation saved the Union and improved the Constitution. Mr. Amar continues his documentary approach, filling his book with the ...

Comedy and Magic Club resident comedian Jay Leno offers perspective on Hermosa Beach resident comedian Jimmy Kimmel ...

Soon after the assassination of King in April 1968, Bobby Kennedy gave a speech where he quoted the poet Aeschylus: “Even in ...

An absorbing and sensitive survey, Zaakir Tameez's book adeptly captures the many contradictions of the tumultuous life of a truly great, flawed leader, Charles Sumner.

That's the message delivered Friday to a nation on tenterhooks, sealed for nearly a century inside an envelope thought to ...

Dozens of people gathered on Monday at the Lee Creighton Justice Center to honor the building’s namesake and the legacy of the Olympia Municipal Court before the court merges with Thurston County ...

The unemployment rate for Black Americans has shot up by 1.5 percentage points over the last three months, a rare development outside of recessions. At 7.5%, it’s once again twice the rate for White ...

Chainsaw took that round like he took everything in life—head-on, with a laugh and a quick curse, pushing forward while the ...