Constitution of the United States Archives

Good Chat: About those Trump tariffs…

Alexandra Guisinger and Todd N. Tucker - April 4, 2025

Todd Tucker discusses the April 2 tariff announcement, and what comes next.

Jennifer McCoy, Rachel Beatty Riedl, Kenneth Roberts, and Murat Somer - March 31, 2025

A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks.

Sarah Binder - March 12, 2025

Here’s why Democrats are especially reluctant to let that happen.

Carolyn E. Holmes - February 11, 2025

South Africa’s Expropriation Act mirrors eminent domain rules in the United States and other countries.

Erica De Bruin and Heather Sullivan - January 8, 2025

Brazil’s democracy faced a major test, according to the police report on this coup attempt.

Alexandra Guisinger - December 20, 2024

The idea of tariffs as a tax revenue stream seems easy to understand. Their political consequences are less so.

Danielle Lupton, Jessica Blankshain, David T. Burbach, Lindsay P. Cohn, and Theo Milonopoulos - December 3, 2024

Here are the limits of presidential authority under the Constitution and federal law.

Nadia E. Brown and Ange-Marie Hancock - August 2, 2024

The “one-drop rule” and America’s long history of racial classification.

Melissa Schwartzberg - June 4, 2024

The former president frequently denounces U.S. institutions that don’t agree with him. But this is different.

Andrea Silva - April 9, 2024

State efforts to override federal immigration policies tend to backfire, research shows.