On September 19, AEI’s Jay Cost and Adam J. White discussed Dr. Cost’s new book, Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution (AEI Press, 2023). Dr. Cost began by summarizing the book, which ...

The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy, by Jessica Pishko, Dutton, 480 pages, $32 The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States, by ...

In his new book "No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States," legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky contends that it's high time to hold a new constitutional convention.

Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...

Donald Trump caught academics off guard. Historians and social scientists had long studied the American right, amassing a vast library on its relationship to race, gender, sex, the media, the Cold War ...

Election issues, The Pursuit of Happiness, First National Student-Led Constitutional Convention David Axelrod joins to discuss the upcoming 2024 election and will give insight about the number of ...

How did Americans come to worship the Constitution? The Constitution is often invoked as a safeguard for American democracy, but does it more often get in democracy’s way? The Supreme Court has taken ...

In an October 2019 Atlantic article, Sanford Levinson warned readers that the “Constitution is the crisis” of our government. (Emphasis in original.) Writing on his Substack page in June 2022, James ...

As India prepares to mark Republic Day on January 26, 2026, the occasion offers an opportunity to revisit the document that defines the country's democratic foundation, the Constitution of India.

This shouldn’t make you feel better, California, but here it is: Your votes are not the most undervalued in the entire United States! Turns out votes in Florida and Texas are worth even less than ours ...

This shouldn’t make you feel better, California, but here it is: Your votes are not the most undervalued in the entire United States! Turns out votes in Florida and Texas are worth even less than ours ...