Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

The Trump megabill poised to pass Congress would turn Immigration and Customs Enforcement into the most powerful federal ...

The bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence began early for many Americans. On a chilly December morning in 1973, a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a bid by Idaho and West Virginia to enforce their state laws banning ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

Benjamin Franklin warned that it would be hard to maintain our Republic. This 4th of July, let's all pledge to fight prejudice and inequality ...