The 1800 presidential contest, one of the most spirited in our nation's history, is the subject of Edward Larson's book A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (Free Press, 2007). Pulitzer Prize winner Larson, now the Hugh & Hazel Darling Professor of Law at Pepperdine,...

The instinct of some liberal voices to lay blame for the Arizona shootings on the right, before any facts were known, is unseemly and potentially more divisive that the spirited rhetoric that is their target.

The vice presidency has become a useful part of American government.

The vice presidency--an office that was long the vermiform appendix of American government--has become a useful organ.

Examining the history of the use of the "executive privilege" can help us assess current battles between Congress and President Bush.