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Long before any government wrote it into law, the intuition was already there: that violence in war should be aimed at those who fight, not at those who do not.

The declassified record documents foreign influence operations in recent U.S. elections but no altered vote tally, a distinction that cuts against the president's 2020 claim and, applied evenly, against overreaching claims about Russia and 2016 alike.

The American socialist impulse is older than the industrial working class it is now associated with, older than the strikes and party conventions that would come to define it, and, crucially, older than Karl Marx…

The Espionage Act became law on June 15, 1917, just weeks after the United States entered World War I, and it passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who had been pressing Congress for such authority since…

For most of the American nineteenth century, a job in the federal government was not a career won by examination or held by right of competence.

To understand why the Chinese Communist Party still treats a Beijing house-church pastor as a matter of national security, you have to go back roughly two centuries, to a period when the cross arrived in China not on…

To understand why an American constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 turns on the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," one has to travel back more than two and a half centuries earlier, to a property dispute…

The entire fight turns on a statute roughly one paragraph long, codified since a 2014 recodification at 54 U.S.C. 320301 to 320303, and before that at 16 U.S.C. 431 to 433 (nps.gov; law.cornell.edu).

For most of American history, the question of who could sell a poison, and under what conditions, belonged to the states.

At 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, on the Alamogordo bombing range about 120 miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the world changed in a way that could never be reversed.