American democracy is in real trouble, but history, law, social science, and global politics all suggest that rights can be ...

The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment ...

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was accused of blocking immigration agents from making an arrest inside the courthouse. Dugan ...

In his reflections on Dēmos’ and NPQ’s Third Reconstruction series, Aron Goldman uplifts the call to look beyond the crises of today and envision a new path toward our collective liberation.

Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To preserve democracy and champion good governance through honest journalism and ...

This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The former colonies came together as a nation inspired by the principles expressed in the Declaration of ...

Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. The first, which is quite well known, is Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most originalists today would say they adhere to an “original public meaning”—interpreting the document as it was understood by ...

Not so long ago, originalism seemed safely contained. Ascendant during the Reagan era, originalists argued that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning, but when ...

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp. In October 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant invoked the Third Anti-KKK Enforcement Act, ...