One particular element of that conversation promises to be particularly fraught: calls to punish “hate speech.” After Kirk’s killing, Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to “target” and “go after” ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

In the October issue, Jill Lepore explained how a radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution. Jill Lepore’s stellar cover story rightly described the ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Three-fourths of U.S. states have ratified the amendment, and many argue it is the 28th Amendment to the Constitution; Women’s Equality Day serves as a reminder of the amendment’s importance. A ...

King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands to create the Kingdom of Hawaii. His statue stands outside of Ali'iolani Hale, the home of the Hawaii Supreme Court. (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News) ...