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Alexander Hamilton
January 6, 2023
Thomas Geoghegan
The Constitutional Case for Disarming the Debt Ceiling
The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.
November 18, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Paul Gosar and Kevin McCarthy Should Keep Alexander Hamilton’s Name Out of Their Mouths
The Republicans defame the dead in service of a scoundrel.
June 18, 2021
Natalie Shure
Meet the Villain of
In the Heights
: Alexander Hamilton
The protagonist of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s most famous musical helped build the world in which his modern-day heroes are struggling to live.
May 6, 2021
Simon Lazarus
,
Robert Litan
The Democrats Are Doing Court Reform Backward
They’ve responded to Trump’s makeover of the courts with legislative nonstarters and shortsighted proposals. But the party first needs to sell the public on its vision for a liberal judiciary.
September 26, 2019
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Green New Deal Meets Green Republicanism
Does an empire of consumers have any hope of saving the planet?
January 7, 2019
Magazine
John Fabian Witt
The Operative
How John Marshall built the Supreme Court around his political agenda
July 17, 2017
Magazine
Win McCormack
Created Equal
How the divide between rich and poor has undermined the Constitution.
April 10, 2017
Magazine
Ganesh Sitaraman
Divided We Fall
The Founders knew that economic inequality would destroy America's democracy. So why can't the Constitution save us?
June 13, 2016
Michelle Legro
Perhaps the key to success on Broadway really is hard work.
June 10, 2016
Michelle Legro
Follow That Hamilton!
This weekend, photographer Jackson Krule pursues the musical as it makes its long-awaited journey to the Tony Awards.
April 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
Hillary Clinton is heir to the Alexander Hamilton tradition of American politics.
April 20, 2016
Maggie Foucault
Andrew Jackson is getting kicked off the $20 bill. And Harriet Tubman is on.
January 9, 2013
Stephen L. Carter
"Borking" Hagel? Just What the Founding Fathers Would Have Wanted
December 7, 2012
Gordon S. Wood
The Birth of American Finance
January 12, 2012
Akhil Reed Amar
Why Speakers of the House Should Never Be President
October 26, 2011
Sean Wilentz
The Mirage
The long and tragical history of post-partisanship, from Washington to Obama.
April 7, 2011
John B. Judis
Neutralized
March 17, 2011
Gordon S. Wood
The Company Of Giants
January 10, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Constitutionalism For Me, Not For Thee
December 24, 2010
Gordon S. Wood
The Great American Argument
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