The 1798 law is often referred to as a “war-time” act. But the United States was not at war in 1798. The Federalist party, then led by president John Adams ... Alien and Sedition Acts passed ...

Donald Trump seems also not to understand John Adams’s fundamental observation ... Originally part of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Alien Enemies Act authorizes a president to deport ...

At Wilson’s urging, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it punishable with 20 years in prison to “utter, print, write or publish ... In New Haven, Connecticut, John Delano recalled ...

Corey Brettschneider’s The Presidents and the People illuminates how John Adams, James Buchanan ... his office to silence and jail his political critics. The Sedition Act made it a crime to write or ...

Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's application to refer legal questions relating to the Sedition Act 1948 to the Federal Court will be heard before another judge.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Metropolitan Opera opened its Lincoln Center theatre in September 1966 with the premiere of Samuel ...

John Curran, a business consultant from James City County, announced Monday that he intends to reenter Virginia’s lieutenant governor race as a write-in candidate. Curran initially ran for the ...