The Fifth Amendment. You have the right to remain silent when you're being questioned in police custody, thanks to the... more

Big Bird, politics, and the ABCs: how a television show made to represent New York City neighborhoods like Harlem and... more

Dinosaurs, Carl Sagan, and nuclear war. There was a moment in the not-so-distant past when we learned what drove the... more

The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to... more

Millions of Americans depend on their jobs for health insurance. But that's not the case in many other wealthy countries.... more

What can and can't the president do — and how do we know? The framers of the U.S. Constitution left... more

The alleged link between vaccines and autism was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in medical journal The... more

Wong Kim Ark was born in the U.S. and lived his whole life here. But when he returned from a... more

Who owns stolen art? Today on the show, the bloody journey of a Benin Bronze from West Africa to the... more

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did... more