Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Why were the Federalist Papers important?

In a June 29 commentary — “ ‘No Kings’ but for the kingly presidents we’ve already had?” — John C. “Chuck” Chalberg is tilting at windmills. The flaws in the piece are many; the two major ones are a ...

The Indiana Supreme Court Law Library has an excerpt of Federalist Paper No. 65, believed to have been written by Alexander Hamilton. Photo by Connor Burress, TheStatehouseFile.com. The basement of ...

During Chief Justice Roberts's confirmation hearing, he refused to call himself an originalist. And during his nearly two decades on the Court, he has never raised the banner of originalism. But he ...

One of the pleasures of writing is you often surprise yourself. Poets and fiction writers try to get out of the way to allow the work to go where it wants to go; nonfiction writers, like journalists, ...