Help keep Salon independent

Topic: james madison

Cool Founding Fathers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Founding fathers: Way too woke?

Kirk Swearingen
James Madison | US Constitution (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How James Madison became a detective

Matthew Rozsa
January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot, James Madison and John Locke (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Secularism: Our final "guardrail"

Jacques Berlinerblau
Donald Trump, and portraits of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Photo illustration by Salon/Hulton Archive/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Is Trump literally dissolving our union?

Kirk Swearingen
Advertisement:
Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, and Andrew Cuomo (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump versus the states

Jennifer Selin - The Conversation
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Constitution won't save us from Trump

Cody Cain
George Washington is the figure standing on the dais. The central figures of the portrait are Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Painting by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952).

The Founding Fathers on impeachment

Clark D. Cunningham - The Conversation
James Madison; Robert Mueller; Plato (Getty/Wikimedia/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump, Mueller and the "rule of law"

Andrew O'Hehir
Advertisement:
Donald Trump; Reinhold Niebuhr (Getty/Olivier Douliery/Wikimedia)

What would Niebuhr say?

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Vladimir Putin; Alexander Hamilton (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Getty/GeorgiosArt)

Don't blame Putin!

Conor Lynch

Read the Bill of Rights

James Madison

Read the Constitution

The Constitutional Convention
Advertisement:
Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean in "Bean" (PolyGram Filmed)

Art lessons from Mr. Bean

Noah Charney
James Madison (Wikimedia/National Gallery)

James Madison was an artist

Adam Cohen - The National Book Review
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Our creepy face of demagoguery

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
(Jeff Malet/maletphoto/<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/profile/everlite'>everlite</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)

Cruz' "Walking Dead" nightmare

Michael Signer
Advertisement:

The real George Washington

Elias Isquith
(Reuters/Joe Burbank/Brendan McDermid/AP/Jason Decrow/photo montage by Salon)

This is our new Constitution

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia (AP/Michael Conroy/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Photo collage by Salon)

The "rubber stamp" SCOTUS

Elias Isquith
John Adams, Thomas Piketty (Wikimedia/Reuters/Charles Platiau)

The Founders backed Piketty

Joseph Blasi
Advertisement: