U.S. History

The Court’s betrayal of its constitutional role has vastly increased the stakes for the current and any future Justice nomination.

Homicide rates in the US remain well below where they were 25 years ago, and stubbornly high homicide rates are a regional — and not a national — problem.

Reagan's rhetoric on freedom and free markets was excellent. The policies he supported as president weren't nearly as great.

As of 2016, median wealth in the United States was still near 1983 levels.

As the fear of spies and traitors spread through the North, political arrests became commonplace, even in states as far north as Maine.

Why is it that starving Venezuelans are eating dogs while Americans are rescuing dogs from hurricanes?

It's frightening to see the persistent lack of insight shown by policymakers and financial media on the 2008 financial crisis.

Included in John C. Frémont’s declaration of Martial Law is the first emancipation proclamation of the war.

In the early years of the United States, legal systems were far more localized and flexible. But elites preferred consistency over flexibility, and the rich could afford the more bureaucratic legal institutions that ordinary people could not. 

Confederate and Union forces fight on Bloody Hill, and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek comes to an end.