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The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened. “A fraud on the American public.” That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described...

As the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination heats up, one name keeps popping up as the GOP's go-to guy on poverty, economic inequality and social policy. "My views on this were shaped a lot on this by Charles Murray's book," Jeb Bush...

Amar’s talk focused on the democratic elements of the Constitution. Photo by Takahiro Omura EMMA FRIEDLANDER friedlan@grinnell.edu Last Wednesday, Sept. 23, the Rosenfield Program held a rousing talk by legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar as part of its...

The U.S. House on Wednesday narrowly defeated a proposal to sharply restrict the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program that was exposed by Edward Snowden. The Obama administration and House Speaker John Boehner, unlikely allies...

“In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time.” Every four years, we elect a president in this country, and we do it in a strange way: via the Electoral College. The reasons for the Electoral College are unclear to most people....