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Impartial Justice: The Flags or Our Justices Jun. 04, 2024

Crime and Conduct

Last month, The New York Times reported that in January of 2021, about the time the constitutional t... Read More

America's Fiscal Ethos: From Alexander Hamilton's Day to Our Own Apr. 11, 2024

Veronique de Rugy

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limit... Read More

McCarthy's Messy Fraternity House May. 24, 2023

Jamie Stiehm

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, California, comes fr... Read More

Truman Walks In, Hamilton Moves Out Oct. 05, 2022

Jamie Stiehm

Bye, Alexander Hamilton, you're out. Harry Truman, you're in. The gorgeous Capitol Rotunda statues ... Read More

The Founders: Only One Best Man for Women Jun. 30, 2021

Jamie Stiehm

WASHINGTON — The Founding Fathers, a great group of guys, gathered in Philadelphia in July of ... Read More

History Has Its Eyes on You, Senate, and if You Don't Know, Now You Know Jan. 29, 2020

Jamie Stiehm

WASHINGTON — Aaron Burr famously foresaw it all, in the room where it happens one winter day i... Read More

Punishing Trade Pirates? It's Complicated Jul. 24, 2019

Jim Hightower

There's a hierarchy of larceny in our world, from pickpockets to the Wall Street syndicates running ... Read More

In Money We Trust? May. 22, 2019

John Stossel

Look at the dollar bills in your wallet. They say they are "legal tender for all debts." But are the... Read More

Hamilton and Trump: Who Knew? Jun. 20, 2018

Jamie Stiehm

WASHINGTON — A brash, reddish-haired New Yorker — or two — is taking the town by s... Read More

America's Doctor May. 31, 2018

Lenore Skenazy

At a duel, each man is allowed to choose a doctor to accompany him. At the most famous duel in Ameri... Read More

A President of Our Own: Counting the Days Oct. 28, 2016

Jamie Stiehm

NEW YORK — A new zeitgeist is coming to town, touching down all over the country: New York, Wa... Read More

Obama: God-Given Rights 'Was a Radical Idea' Sep. 21, 2016

Terence Jeffrey

President Barack Obama affirmed this week that the Declaration of Independence recognizes that "indi... Read More

Hip-Hop Civics, as Taught by Trump and 'Hamilton' Jun. 24, 2016

Suzanne Fields

NEW YORK CITY — Race matters, but it's not all that matters. That's the lesson of "Hamilton," ... Read More

The Way of the World, Hamilton, Jackson and Tubman Apr. 22, 2016

Jamie Stiehm

One treasury secretary has saved another. Isn't that the way of the world? History has its eyes on y... Read More

Immigration and Our Founding Fathers' Values Dec. 11, 2015

Michelle Malkin

President Obama claims that restricting immigration in order to protect national security is "offens... Read More