Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...

When Peachtree first released Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, back in September 2017, the Trump administration was still in its early ...

In a 2014 column for USA Today, HBO host Bill Maher asked readers a rather important question: "How is it that a nation that was never interested in politics has now made everything political?" My ...

Patrick T. Conley is historian laureate of Rhode Island. Over the course of my career as a professor specializing in American constitutional development, as an attorney with a specialty in ...

WASHINGTON — Former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens wants to reduce gun violence, abolish the death penalty, restrict political campaign spending, limit states' independence and make Congress ...

In this extremely timely book, Prof. Brettschneider reminds us that, in order for our government to work as it was meant to, each branch—Executive, Legislative and Judicial—must work with the other.