WASHINGTON — A billionaire Palestinian-American developer accused by Oct. 7 victims’ families of “aiding and abetting” Hamas ...

The House Divided Project invited Fergus Bordewich, a Civil War historian, to campus to give the annual Wert Lecture on how the extreme division in the country manifests in Congress by focusing on the ...

The S&P 500 fell 3.5 percent by the closing bell, erasing part of Wednesday’s recovery, as fears grew that the worsening ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

The naturalized US citizen was accused of providing an “essential part” of Hamas’ “terror infrastructure” by facilitating the ...

Shoshana Chatfield, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continued his purge of military leaders ...

A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

On Friday, March 14, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law giving him immense powers to deport ...

The Trump administration has, for the fourth time in history, invoked the war-time Alien Enemies Act of 1798, even though our ...

We don’t have to imagine what Trump would do with wartime powers. He's already doing it, and U.S. citizens could be next.

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...