Semiquincentennial” is a pretty big word favored by sesquipedalians (people who use big words). It’s a word most of us will ...

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On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’s ...

OpEd: The inalienable rights documented in the Declaration of Independence are under increasing attack from the Trump ...

That's not how Jefferson remembered the event. He simply recalled being asked by a committee of the Founding Fathers to take up his pen. "Possibly neither of their memories served, and possibly both ...

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4, 1776?

Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident,” is written in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and was passed unanimously by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It was ...

The invention of democracy and the role of judges can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is the subject of Aeschylus’ ...

The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community, national, and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform - scouts, ...

Those annoying countdown clocks the cable TV networks use to let us know how much time remains before a presidential address ...