A new HBO film remembers when Ali was the most controversial figure in America—an anti-war icon who nearly lost his heavyweight title for resisting the draft.
Justice Stephen Breyer’s attempt to return internal respect to the Supreme Court is noble, but he chose the wrong case to make his point.
GOP senators want political parties, and not the president, to appoint the next Supreme Court justice. But history shows a more noble way.
The federal government wants broad authority to strip naturalized immigrants of their hard-won status.
Lyle Denniston, one of the most seasoned Court watchers of all time, is unimpressed by the new format.
Some recipes from Thomas Jefferson, the Coolidge White House, 19th-century political rallies, and a Supreme Court justice's husband--with a dose of history
In dismissing the classified-documents case, she is ignoring both practical history and legal precedent.
A recent ruling in a case on cell-phone searches may point to future limitations on surveillance.
A succession of well-meaning but clumsy rulings has encouraged political gerrymandering