I'm a very competitive person by nature, and I like a good challenge. That's a big reason why I play video games, and why I particularly enjoy games by FromSoftware, the powerhouse developer behind ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our history — even when it’s discriminatory — remembering and teaching ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice President ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, where ...

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary Frances ...

For the first time in over a century, children will soon be born in the United States without the benefit of birthright citizenship, thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Although ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

THEBES, Ill. -- Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday in St. Louis to mark the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case, which was heard in the Old Courthouse in downtown ...

In the first—but surely not the last—court order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour said he could not ...

Scholars have engaged in a sharp argument over whether the judiciary should follow the original understanding in interpreting the Constitution. Recent criticism has argued that originalism fails ...