But in the reality show that has replaced a properly functioning system of democratic governance, we are fast approaching the ...

Tall, rich, and beautiful, Richmond was hard to ignore. His eyes in particular were “superb,” as one contemporary remembered; ...

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s ...

Hamilton feared the mob. Jefferson warned against unchecked elites. But both thought that the republic could fall.

The shameful final grievance of the Declaration of Independence This one-dimensional vision of Native Americans was new.

She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for ...

Trump may have ended the Gaza hostage crisis. Can he end the Gaza war? When Donald Trump brokered the Abraham Accords in his ...

Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion emerita at Prince­ton University and the author, most recently, of Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus.

A man in a red knit cap yanked as hard as he could. “That’s just—my ankle—breaking!” Cam yelped. No one suggested slicing the ...

With the exception of John Quincy Adams, no other son of a Founder rose to his father’s stature. The unluckiest of all may ...

In a new book, the sportswriter Jane Leavy spitballs with some of the greats about how to make the American pastime more ...