Aaron Burr is indicted on charges of treason. Chief Justice John Marshall would preside over Burr's trial.

Political parties that lose major elections will often create an "autopsy report." Hoping not to make the same mistakes twice, an autopsy lets the party take stock of its failures, learn why its ...

The Trump administration's announcement that it had established a large, taxpayer-financed "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was an odd addition to an already-odd news cycle. The pool of $1,776,000,000—1776, ...

As Republicans and Democrats continue their mid-decade redistricting grudge match that could determine which party controls Congress after November, Americans may learn a truism about legislative ...

Who's failing at frugality? Though it's sort of lame to bring online discourse into newsletter format, this made the rounds earlier this week and is worth pushing back on: This is bc they do not have ...

The Republican Party is dead. Long live the party of Trump, which wears the GOP like a skin suit. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took down libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), to whom ...

It seems possible that the Chief Justice assigned the majority to Justice Alito, but something happened along the way, and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett decided to DIG. On Thursday, the Court ...

Police in Arlington, Texas, arrested a fellow officer who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman he met while responding to a call for help at her home. Investigators say Officer Derreck Dean returned ...

A Minnesota senator got fined for insider trading on a prediction market. His response was to ban the platforms for everyone ...

In the 2024–2025 school year, 60.2 percent of grades awarded at Harvard were A's, according to the school's Office of ...

The lawsuit that provided the pretext for this arrangement, which was provoked by an IRS contractor's illegal leaking of ...