“Perhaps this was the most awful scene I have ever witnessed,” Sussex County native William Morgan wrote nearly four decades after the 1805 lightning strike on the Georgetown courthouse. “[Dr. Jacob] ...

Contrary to Peter Berkowitz's "Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers" (op-ed, May 7), the writings of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison are indeed taught at top universities. At ...

The first of The Federalist Papers were published 225 years ago this weekend. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham about their ...

America’s Counter-Revolution, dedicated “To the constitutionalists of all parties,” gives new meaning to the word pithy. In 20 short chapters (most of which were previously columns in the Freeman and ...

In overturning Roe, the Supreme Court relied on originalism, a legal philosophy embraced by conservatives. The Federalist Society, which promotes originalism, also helped Trump choose Supreme Court ...