It’s easy to look at President Donald Trump’s second term and conclude that the less power and reach the federal government has, the better. After all, a smaller government might provide Trump or ...

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at ...

That’s why Jefferson wrote of “unalienable Rights.” Madison echoed that government was to be “a protector, not a giver, of liberty.” This principle distinguishes the American republic from both ...

As the author of a book called Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, I naturally took an interest when Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch published a book late last year ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts. The recent battle in Congress over President Trump’s tax and budget bill places before us three fundamental questions: How much power should government ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been putting the squeeze on companies and trading partners in an unusual effort to raise revenue and expand the president’s role over the economy. As the commerce ...