At the heart of the tumult in Egypt is the nature of its new constitution. On one side are Islamist political forces pressing for its passage as a step forward toward their vision of stability and ...

WASHINGTON -- If George Bush did not flirt with withdrawal during last year's presidential campaign when it looked as if Iraq might cost him his political career, he certainly will not do so as a ...

If you would like to sponsor an individual historic story or theme: Vietnam, baseball, hunting or Old St Jo submit a short idea to, [email protected] The answer is four! A U.S. territory can become ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Imagine if James Madison and the other Founding Fathers had tried to write a constitution while carriages were being blown up on the roads from Boston to Philadelphia. Imagine if, instead of holding ...

The National Assembly, relying on a provision in the 1999 Constitution whose legitimacy is widely disputed, is set to embark on yet another attempt to produce a new constitution for Nigeria. Previous ...

If George Bush did not flirt with withdrawal during last year's presidential campaign when it looked as if Iraq might cost him his political career, he certainly will not do so as a second-term ...