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With the writing of the Constitution in 1787, the framers set out a young nation’s highest ideals. And ever since, we’ve been fighting over it — what is in it and what was left out. At the h...
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Ava Wallace, sports reporter at The Washington Post, is in France to report on the Summer Games — and eat a lot of croissants. Join her thro...
Grenada’s Black revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983, along with seven others. The whereabouts of their rema...
To hear the rest of the series, follow “Field Trip” wherever you listen. California’s Sierra Nevada is home to a very special kind of tree,...
Journey through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s national parks. The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham ventures off the m...
No-knock warrants allow police to force their way into people’s homes without warning. What happens when this aggressive police tactic becom...
In the "Constitutional" finale, we address listener questions about the history--and future--of the nation's governing document.
Why do First Amendment rights trump nearly every other right in America? Thank Jehovah's Witnesses.
How should the Constitution's privacy protections be translated for a new era? This is a question before the Supreme Court today, but it was...
The passage and then repeal of the 18th Amendment, banning alcohol in America, highlighted the pitfalls of trying to legislate against vice.
Congress today faces the same question it faced a century ago when creating the modern tax system: What kind of society should America be?
One intention the framers had when creating the U.S. Constitution was to “provide for the common defense.” But who shoulders that duty has n...
What was the original point of the Second Amendment? We examine its colonial and revolutionary roots—plus its quiet companion, the Third Ame...
The words "marriage" and "love" appear nowhere in the U.S. Constitution. Yet 50 years ago, the Supreme Court issued a decision that would em...
"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around the issue of punishment. And you have to understand that those feelings have a history...
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that states must offer a defense attorney to all poor people accused of crimes. The...
Is it a feature or a bug of the amendment process that an idea of James Madison's, more than 200 years ago, could be recently resurrected an...
When the United States changed its process for electing senators, did that lead to a decline in state power? Or did it instead bring us clos...
From the American Revolution through today, women have been leading a long-burning rebellion to gain rights not originally guaranteed under...
As powerful as it was to change the Constitution after the Civil War, and enshrine racial equality into our governing document, that wasn’t...
What makes someone American? A landmark Supreme Court case in 1898, involving a child born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents, wo...
In 1879, a case involving Chief Standing Bear came before a Nebraska courtroom and demanded an answer to the question: Are Native Americans...
In the premier episode of “Constitutional,” we go back in time to that hot Philadelphia summer in 1787 when a group of revolutionary America...
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