There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years of its Independence, it is proper to examine the career of James Madison, the fourth president of the Republic. More than any other, he shaped the ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...

This video follows the bitter political chaos that erupted after George Washington left office. John Adams and Thomas ...

On America's 250th birthday, an editor champions James Madison for drafting the First Amendment and fiercely defending it ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office on Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders found guilty ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2023, after Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia ...

The six Democrats who urged U.S. service members to "refuse illegal orders" are threatening a legal battle with President Donald Trump over what they see as a "weaponization" of the Department of ...

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court nominee ...

Hours after Jimmy Lai, a businessman and pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, was found guilty on national security and sedition charges, his daughter Claire Lai told reporters in Washington, D ...