How to sum up something as vast and varied as the American experiment? We surveyed leading scholars and thinkers.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Nobody likes to lose an argument, especially if you know you’re right. But the first thing to ...

Like all good lawyers, Supreme Court justices can argue over anything — including, it turns out, how best to argue. Quiet grumbling for years over how the court conducts its oral argument sessions has ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Over the last two months, we have laid out in detail our ideas about the key issues in the birthright citizenship case, Trump ...

The U.S. Supreme Court witnessed a sharp exchange as Chief Justice John Roberts openly questioned arguments seeking to limit birthright citizenship. Calling parts of the legal reasoning “quirky,” ...

The Supreme Court gave a tough – but not dismissive – review of President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine who is an American, debating the issue on Wednesday as the president himself added to the ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging President Donald Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship. Trump issued the executive order on his first day in office, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — People spoke in whispers and craned their necks Wednesday as President Donald Trump broke with all sitting presidents before him and took a seat in the front row open to the public ...

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump made a historic visit to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to attend arguments over the legality of a policy he considers crucial to his ...

Lately, I have been thinking about that. Logical arguments are certainly correct. However, there is no guarantee that logical arguments will move people. On the other hand, the moment something ...

Nitpicking is a fallacy in which one attempts to reject an opponent's entire position by attacking trivial points that do not affect the validity of the argument. This line of reasoning is a fallacy ...