During an extraordinary span between 1840 and 1920, America wrestled mightily with what the country’s founders intended when they declared that “all men are created equal.” In his new book, “Born ...

The beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by a surge in executive orders, some of which have generated intense political and legal debates. At the time of publication, ...

The debate over Proposition 3 echoes the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1987 decision in United States v. Salerno, which upheld a ...

But since the country’s founding, constitutional meaning has never emerged solely from an elite cadre of justices. Nor has ...