Donald Trump’s election win, aided in part by online disinformation, has reignited the debate over whether the First Amendment’s protections are adequate in today’s digital age. The contemporary ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

In the October issue, Jill Lepore explained how a radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution. Jill Lepore’s stellar cover story rightly described the ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

The Second Amendment occupies a curious place in American legal history. It has been sitting right there in the Bill of Rights since those amendments were first added to the Constitution in 1791. Yet ...