The Dred Scott decision denied Black citizenship and deepened slavery’s hold on America

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

California Republicans thought they could beat Newsom’s gerrymander. They crashed and burned.

Munger could not have known everything that was to come: fundraising failures, the painful dissolution of a good-government coalition, his name dragged through the mud, and the ultimate fall of the ...