Today in History: Franklin Roosevelt Tries to Pack the U.S. Supreme Court
Remembering the lessons of FDR's executive overreach.
Remembering the lessons of FDR's executive overreach.
The escaped slave and ouspoken abolitionist was a classical liberal.
The Bill of Rights largely embodied uncontroversial traditional rights of Englishmen.
Docudrama miniseries revisits America's most-famous court case.
Why should libertarians celebrate the blueprint that made powerful government possible?
Author Eric Weiner on the places where creativity thrives and why governments won't create the next Silicon Valley.
Filmmaker boycotts Oscars for being "so white," while radio talker says blacks need to own problems of their own making.
There is nothing particularly special about today's political hostilities.
A new book finds unexpected connections between two movements that shaped the 20th century.
International security researcher: "Western Europe is safer now than it has been for decades and is far safer than most other parts of the world."
What rare Hellenistic statues tell us about the ancient world and 21st-century America.
Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
PC hysteria: not just for Americans!
Lawrence Dennis, Norman Thomas, A.J. Muste, and Raymond Moley debate the ideal social system.
Firearms played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Surprisingly, the 28th president still has his defenders on the left.
Young people don't remember just how bad it was under socialism.
A historian tries to blame "Christian libertarians" for the idea that America is a Christian nation.
Saints & Strangers plays out the tense political negotiations.
Something to watch with The Man in the High Castle
In which we relate the strange saga of Jasper McLevy, because he probably won't turn up in Sanders' speech
Before anyone was afraid of ISIS terrorists disguised as Syrian refugees, Americans were afraid of Nazi agents disguised as Jewish refugees.
Which occupant of the Oval Office flirted with anti-authoritarian ideas in his youth?
There was a time when psychedelics could get friendly coverage on a commercial TV news show.
Compared to these concepts, Carson's theory is downright banal.
The religious right has long been willing to put politics ahead of doctrinal differences.
Examining the role of dissenting opinions in U.S. legal history.
They don't make Republicans like Jack Kemp anymore.
What happened to gun control from 2000 to 2012? Funny you should ask...
A new book argues that black America helped pave the way for the War on Drugs.
A new book examines the life and ideas of the proto-libertarian philosopher.
Americans have always limited trade-and always defied those limits.
Oldest use of the word fucke sexually in writing pushed back 150 years.
Documentary recounts tale of Marine who braved rubble to rescue cops.
Pair of documentaries give their best efforts
Look out, world! Here comes Willkie!
The lengthy history of applying the one-drop rule to our chief executive
A new book sheds light on the singer-songwriter's evangelical years.
But are they really? Large majorities of us prefer creative destruction to government-managed economies.
Once argued 1980 Libertarian presidential candidate Ed Clark and his running mate David Koch deserved to be heard as 'real choices' for American voters.
A few years ago, Congress pardoned the Confederate president but his statues and namesakes may be starting to come down.
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