At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it ...

There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

Frykholm takes portrayal to busiest year yet ...

On America's 250th birthday, an editor champions James Madison for drafting the First Amendment and fiercely defending it ...

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

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KINGS EMBODY authority and impose order. Sack your king, as Americans did in their revolution of the 1770s, and you’ve got to find a new source of authority and new ways to ensure order. After a shaky ...

The DOJ admits it knowingly violated a judge's order against using the Alien Enemies Act to speed along deportations, saying deportation flights continued. Accusations of "sedition" spark uproar. Here ...

From time to time, with everything you naively supposed might endure for the common good — public health, concern for climate change, a passing regard for the truth — going down the drain, the host of ...

On a windy afternoon in February 1959, 14-year-old Craig Wade scooped up what seemed to be a crumpled rag that was blowing, tumbleweed style, across a railroad track in his hometown, Pittsfield, ...

Picture a fiery Massachusetts lawyer risking his career to defend British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, and drafting the Declaration of Independence just six years later. That was John Adams: a ...