An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

A fictional 1979 account of how the town in Virginia would weather an all-out nuclear exchange between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

How a re-creation of its most famous battle helped erase the meaning of the Civil War.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.