They made it pretty easy to convict people of national security crimes. There's the famous case involving the socialist Eugene Debs, who was charged under the Espionage Act — not for actually ...

As a mob stormed the Capitol, the word “sedition” was on many people’s lips. Its force is clear, but its echoes across American history are more complex and ambiguous.

Sedition prosecutions in the U.S. have a particularly shameful history. The 1798 Sedition Act was used in a nakedly partisan manner by John Adams's Federalist administration to prosecute ...