Law-enforcement agencies can arrest terrorists, but they cannot settle existential arguments about the nature of American democracy.

A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.

The president’s supporters believe that the votes of rival constituencies should not count—even though they understand, on some level, that they do.

The conservative justices are scrapping Americans’ constitutional rights, all while pretending they aren’t.