Media
Essays on history, the Constitution and ideas, with reading lists. Historical articles are labelled historical record. Arguments are labelled commentary, so you always know which one you are reading.
Few phrases in American politics carry as much history. Presidents, a mass movement and insurgent campaigns have used it to mean different things, and Americans still disagree about what it should mean.
Archive
Twenty-seven words, two clauses and more than two centuries of argument: what the text says, where it came from and how the Supreme Court has read it since 2008.
For the nation’s 250th year: the founding documents, the voices that held the country to its founding promise, and the classic books of the American conservative tradition.
At the semiquincentennial, the Constitution’s division of power between Washington and the states deserves a stronger defense, and an honest account of the times it was abused.
The Republican Party had no single founder and no single birthday. It grew out of a season of protest against a law that reopened the question of slavery’s expansion.
Americans have long agreed that conscience must be free. They have disagreed just as long about what that requires of government, and both sides of the argument reach back to the founding.
For members
Releases from the White House, the Speaker, House Republican leadership and the party committees, with Republican events from state party calendars, collected through the day and labelled by source.