Lawyers, law students and other fans of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson erupted in cheers and a standing ovation — eagerly snapping far-off, hazy cell phone photographs during the ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told a group of lawyers and judges on Thursday that "the state of our democracy" ...

Jackson did not say what, specifically, concerned her about the state of democracy, though she has recently written a series ...

By striking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the Iran-Israel conflict, Trump was sending a message not just to the mullahs of ...

The Strike on Iran Was ‘Jacksonian’ Walter Russell Mead says Trump’s instincts are to avoid war, but he’s no isolationist. He struck back hard at a real threat.

With each discussion and example in Hamid’s book, it was hard not to return as the reader to a belief that Hamid himself seemed reluctant to embrace or accept: democracy is authoritarianism.

Hamid’s thorough, and multipartisan look at the merits and demerits of democracy was an informative and at times fascinating read despite occasional disagreements with the author.

The Fire Weeds, an experimental, female-driven theater company, has announced its first-ever play festival, taking place at Houghton Hall. Learn more here!

President Donald Trump gave an important speech in Riyadh that may come as close to outlining a “Trump doctrine” for his second term as we’ll probably see.

Ultimately, this is a matter of people, of personhood, and of the right to question and oppose, and learn and affect change.

Freeman, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and of American Studies, and an expert in the revolutionary and early national periods of American history, will cover the period from the ...

Jacksonian democracy was far from perfect: Most women and African-Americans couldn’t vote. But the principle that political power in America rested with ordinary people became firmly entrenched.