At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and the ...

Re: “Abbott clears way for Ten Commandments in schools,” Metro, June 26: Gov. Greg Abbott is so fixated on displaying the Ten ...

Presidential aggrandizement of the war power – the authority to initiate war and lesser military hostilities – which the Framers granted solely and exclusively to Congress because they feared the ...

The term “constitutional crisis” has been used frequently in 2025, often in reaction to a political situation, a ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

As we were older we learned more about the historical importance of July the Fourth. The first Fourth of July was on July 4, 1777, one year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  It is ...

The squabbling between the president and the central bank’s chairman is a reminder of how anomalous the Federal Reserve is in ...

The question is not whether Congress or the Supreme Court has the power to stop Donald Trump but whether they will ever use it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain ...

America's 249th birthday Friday will be no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, 1863, after the Union Army whipped Robert E. Lee and Confederates brigades ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...