The final word actually rests with the public. We can amend the Constitution to join most of the world in barring birthright ...

This week marks the anniversary of women getting the right to vote. That was codified as the 19 th amendment to the Constitution on August 26 th, 1920. But the status of another amendment remains ...

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Those words from Chief Justice John Roberts during this week’s oral arguments signaled that the conservative justices are ...

The year was 1916, and Montgomery was one stop on a perilous 10,700-mile loop around the country for Alice Burke and Nell Richardson in their new "Golden Flyer," a little yellow Saxon car. They were ...