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?

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, ...

Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that the president of the United States had “absolute” criminal immunity for his “official acts,” as well as lesser degrees of immunity for ...