Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

1. Fertilizers are an essential component of agriculture and food production. Producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, and a variety of other crops need phosphate fertilizers to ensure strong crop yields ...

The US’ unique and quite phenomenal economic and political success has resulted from its own adaptations of the British ...

A wave of new surveys shows Americans increasingly don't understand their government. No surprise, then, that socialism is ...

Sen. John Curtis moved through the Park City area on Wednesday as part of a statewide walk marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

In upending plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill, the president illustrated one of his favored tactics: declaring a policy ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible ...

On the latest episode of "Say More," Yale historian Beverly Gage says that although the national mood is fraught, the 250th ...

The following is the full transcript of an interview with Sen. Bill Cassidy that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret ...