Constitution

Republican elections officials in at least 16 states are opposing a House Democratic bill headed for a vote Wednesday that would set national standards for mail-in ballots, early voting, automatic voter registration and other election rules normally left to states to decide.

A proposal to bring back pork-barrel earmarks should be sent to the slaughterhouse.

The court looks poised to weaken the law without obliterating it quite yet.

Masha Gessen writes about how autocratic political power was consolidated in Hungary and Poland, and what lessons we might learn about Donald Trump's current hold on the Republican Party.

In Sunday's legislative elections, voters overwhelmingly backed a popular president promising change, despite criticisms of democratic backsliding.

Armenia is in the midst of a heated political crisis after the General Staff called on Prime Minister Pashinyan to resign last week following the country's disastrous loss in last year's Nagorno-Karabakh War and the subsequent fury of many people who now

Pioneer Institute report finds state legislature could devote new revenue to public education and transportation, but cut funding from existing sources by the same amount.

The United States is currently nearly two months into the presidency of incumbent Joe Biden.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to live in the seat of state government in Charleston, ending a long-running challenge over his residency. Through...

BANGKOK — A new faction of Thailand's pro-democracy movement staged a protest march Sunday, linking their cause with that of demonstrators in Myanmar battling that neighboring country's coup-instal…

From "code is speech" to Dynamex 's labor law test, Ars saw many legal landmarks in 20 years.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is appealing a judge's ...

Between Biden's plans and Democrats' bills, free political speech is under threat.

One classical scholar believes that the field is too implicated in 'whiteness' to survive as-is. Here's why he's wrong.

The Justice Department said Saturday it will appeal a judge's ruling that found the federal government's eviction moratorium was unconstitutional.

During his unsuccessful re-election attempt, Donald Trump pushed his "Big Lie" that he could not lose unless there was fraud. Following the election, his false claims of fraud culminated in the fatal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Now Republicans are using the lie to rationalize efforts to restri...

The history-shaping year that recently ended was a year of spectacular violence. It was the year of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the year when a pandemic took hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them needlessly. It was a year that forced us to recalibrate fundamental social and cultural syst...

Republicans who dominate Indiana's Legislature have several debates to settle among themselves after the first half of this year's session, including how much they'll expand the state's private school voucher program and what limits they'll put on emergency powers the governor has used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feb. 26—The trial for a former Boulder high school student accused of sexually assaulting a female student in 2019 has been pushed back to the summer. Curran...