This week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the idea that "government cannot favor religion over non-religion” is woefully misguided in what was the latest instance of the fervently religious justice projecting his personal beliefs onto the document he pretends to apply ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Nov 9, 2018

James Madison, architect of the U.S. Constitution and author of the Bill of Rights. By Robert Parry: The American Right is fond of putting itself inside the minds of America’s Founders and intuiting what was their “original intent” in writing the U.S. Constitution and its ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

By Robert Parry: The chaos that is engulfing Europe, where 17 countries share a common currency (the euro) but lack a unified fiscal policy, underscores again the wisdom of America’s Framers, who cast aside a states-rights-oriented system in favor of a strong central government, ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 18, 2016

By Robert Parry: If Fox News and Antonin Scalia were around in 1792 when James Madison and George Washington helped push through the Militia Acts requiring citizens to buy muskets and other military supplies, those Founders likely would have heard complaints like: “What else will ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Robert Parry: One has to hand it to the American Right. It has invested so heavily in its falsification of U.S. history – and in its propaganda machinery – that it can convince millions of Americans that up is down. A case in point is the notion that James Madison, “the father ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018