Article I of the United States Constitution mainly outlines how Congress is structured and what powers it holds. While Section 9 limits the federal government, Section 10 places important restrictions ...

Mr. Lee and Mr. Durbin are senators. This article was updated to reflect news developments. We disagree on many issues. One of us is a longtime Democrat, the other a conservative Republican. But both ...

Opening my latest issue of “Smithsonian Magazine” (yes, I actually do read other literature besides gun magazines, from the above to “Range” magazine, having rather catholic tastes), I was stopped in ...

Federalism — the division of power between the national government and the states — has never been fixed. Since the Constitution was adopted, this balance has shifted in response to major events in ...

Our Public Editor inbox is overflowing with commentary on NPR's coverage of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran and now Lebanon. Much of it is critical of NPR, but there are some compliments as well.

I had the pleasure recently of having breakfast with two readers who also occasionally write columns for The Pilot’s Opinion section. Were you to place them on the political spectrum, they’d probably ...

I got a call from a client recently. She was trying to help a friend out in buying their first home, a townhouse. Her attorney warned her that she may be about to violate Section 32 rules in how she ...

There’s good news and bad news on the housing front: The buyers’ strike of the past three years is finally working, but the path to better affordability looks painful for many of those trying to sell ...

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When selecting Cycle Sort from the algorithms list, the tool does not load the expected visualization. Instead, it immediately redirects the user to the Have a Doubt section, preventing access to the ...

My brain is always going a million miles a minute about a thousand different things. Being a mom of three young kids, I’m also being pulled in three different directions, constantly. There’s never a ...

South Clinton Avenue looked third-worldly in the dusk of Tuesday evening. A swath of the busy street showed human deterioration, particularly near one house close to Hamilton Ave. Four men loitered ...