This video follows the bitter political chaos that erupted after George Washington left office. John Adams and Thomas ...

Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence, they are also celebrating the first attorneys general who ...

My dad was an Irish immigrant and so were my mom’s parents. America was fair to them, and they wanted to be fair to everyone ...

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional ...

SB1 has been law for one year, and Cirino held a press conference to declare victory. The Today in Ohio podcast explains ...

Now, as America prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence, we are confronted with a bitter irony: the republic born in rebellion against empire has become an empire in everything but name. Worse ...

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his successor Thomas Jefferson did not share the same view of ...

The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting ...

Last month during a trip to Washington, D.C., I revisited the Lincoln Memorial to read two inscriptions that so moved me on a ...

A sharp look at how federal power, wartime fear, and presidential overreach have weakened constitutional limits and personal ...