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As you might have heard, Donald Trump tweeted at a judge. The commentariat shuddered at the effrontery of it, and some worried that the foundations of...

WASHINGTON — Who is John Lewis that Donald Trump should be mindful of him? Lewis, by one definition, is a 76-year-old, liberal politician with a distu...

WASHINGTON — It's important for those who favor the popular election of our presidents to separate their arguments for direct democracy from the outco...

WASHINGTON — Whatever his other considerable achievements, our president-elect is not known for his broad reading in American history. But Donald Trum...

WASHINGTON — When told that the New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller had grandly declared "I accept the universe," the Scottish philosopher T...