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The originalist argument in favor of birthright citizenship is that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” was meant to invoke only a small set of exceptions found in traditional British common law.

In 2024, Toronto swimmer Summer McIntosh set another world record at the short-course swimming championships, winning gold in the women's 400-metre medley, finishing in four minutes, 15.48 seconds, ...

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Pope Francis died in April, ...

Interest in socialism is as much due to the education that debt paid for as it is to the economic conditions that made it ...

When voters believe they're living through an economic apocalypse, they're willing to embrace the very policies that would ...

Catholicism is a religion, not a political program, even though its doctrine also has implications in the debate on political ...

Although classical liberalism was imperfect, especially with its emphasis upon “limited” government, nonetheless, it provided ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

Ken Burns's new documentary on the American Revolution engages in historical revisionism that ignores actual history.

It was the best of times” – two democratic socialists elected mayors of New York and Seattle – “it was the worst of times” – Donald Trump is still ...

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901. The word “up” implies rising from lower to higher. In his writings, Washington frequently ...