President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

It is the Constitution functioning as it should ... We know that it means the children of former slaves are citizens. That was its stated purpose and the plain language of the amendment, which ...

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

These forms are called just-title servitude. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which brought an end to racial slavery in the U.S., does allow for just-title servitude to punish ...

Trump's cuts to the Department of Education are part of a nearly long crusade by conservative Christian groups.

You're next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Most infamously, President James Buchanan (who was in office from 1857 to 1861) offered government posts to politicians who would support a pro-slavery Kansas state constitution drafted in 1857.

But Ali said that likely violated the separation of powers laid-out in the Constitution ... federal workforce and government spending (Getty Images) The Supreme Court had temporarily paused ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he will call for a special election in which voters ...

In 1978, a who’s who of conservative evangelical leaders met in Chicago to draft a statement on biblical inerrancy. It would ...