Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

The event marks the culmination of weeks of effort by the president and his team to get the bill across the finish line.

The Declaration of Independence has some notes about “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish” its existing government ...

What can Americans of good will from left and right do for the coming anniversary? They can turn to the text of the ...

The US government is already preparing massive celebrations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for next ...

In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new ...

As the countdown begins to the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, what principles can unite these United States?

Students at Johns Hopkins University debated political decisions playing out in the U.S. Their emotional discussions reveal ...

Then, there’s the matter of the U.S. Constitution, the legal bedrock of our country, and the Bill of Rights — the first 10 ...

June 30 marked the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of a heavy-handed national security law (NSL) on Hong Kong, which has altered the sociopolitical landscape of the city by undermining its ...