Xenophobia is nothing new. As soon as humans started dividing themselves up into groups, the very next decision was usually how much better they were than that other group. The first cavemen who li...

Any modern reader, after parsing the language, will react to the Alien and Sedition Acts with a "How can this be legal? Seriously?"Short answer? Because the president and Congress said so. This was...

It's easy to forget that the Founding Fathers were politicians. They might not have been politicians first and foremost—and certainly not in the modern way of thinking about it—but it was a par...