Retired justices dissect the court's legacy amid the U.S. 250th anniversary.

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

In political history, there is undeniably no greater sentence than the following, taken from the Declaration of Independence, ...

In 1656, in the aftermath of the English Civil War, the political theorist James Harrington outlined an ideal form of government. In The Commonwealth of Oceana, he imagined a country that, like his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Jennings is CEO of the Lambda Legal organization, a prominent advocate for LGBTQ rights. He sees his mission in part as fulfilling that hallowed American principle: “All men are ...

In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which he pledged to free the Confederate slaves. Just over a year later he delivered the Gettysburg Address, in ...

In recent years, the movie industry hasn't shied away from Catholicism — mostly seen through the lens of the sex abuse scandal. However, a new film seeks to expand the discussion on injustices both ...

SACRAMENTO — The Fourth of July should never be celebrated without revisiting the hallowed words that crown the Declaration of Independence and symbolize the American Dream. And right now, it’s fair ...

A few weeks ago, I received an email written by members of the Republican Party that was forwarded on to me. The email discussed some of the current political issues, and in particular Obamacare. In ...

The Supreme Court justice offers a monologue of self-justification in a talking-head memoir that's revealing even when it doesn't want to be. If you watch “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own ...

Ideology is political religion, said the conservative sage Russell Kirk. And what is the defining dogma of the political religion, or ideology, of America in 2022? Is it not that, “All men are created ...