How do metaphors shape political perceptions? And what do they mean for the future of Europe?

Stephen Pearl Andrews, a lawyer, Houston socialite, and abolitionist, concocted a plan to free Texas' slaves—with a hint of treason.

If the standard we hold for who can vote is the consent of the governed, why shouldn’t children be included?

Neither banning nor recycling will rid us of Styrofoam. Can we live without it?

A wealthy country like the United States needs a solution for improving the supply and fairness of work overall. Is universal basic income the way to go?

These 19th-century novelists might seem to have little in common. But for 11 years they wrote each other letters, forging an unusual literary friendship.

Examining the 18th-century social contract of Captain Bartholomew Roberts and his men shows just how organized and codified pirate societies could be.

Many abolitionists seeking to end slavery in the British West Indies were concerned less with human rights, more with the preponderance of what they saw as "interracial sex."

The Book of Stones, a central alchemical text, contained formulae with the power to create living tissue from ordinary matter, supposedly.

Roe v. Wade left Americans with the idea that privacy is something we can expect as citizens. But does the SCOTUS consider privacy a constitutional right?