The Facts Behind the Current Controversy Over Immigration
The filibuster has played a key role in the enactment of federal law since 1789, but is rarely used outside the U.S. Senate.
George Washington wouldn't believe it
In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.
In 1919 the U.S. Attorney General swooped down on a alleged Bolshevik revolutionaries and deported them by the boatload. For a while he was a national hero; he dreamed of the White House. But then…