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A Trump-supporting artist is painting a potentially record-breaking 9-by-17-foot American flag at the Great American State Fair, but he insists the flag belongs to everyone no matter political party.
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
Doug Burgum defends Washington D.C. infrastructure push, citing 510 graffiti removals, monument restoration, and crime reduction ahead of July 4th.
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
Sam Altman reportedly met with Trump and Bernie Sanders about offering 5% of OpenAI to the public, but only if Anthropic and Meta do the same.
When public needs were great, he wrote, its claim on the 'superfluous' property of the rich was strong and just.
Melat Kiros is the most recent Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidate to win her primary election.
House Democrats mostly sidestepped questions on the Supreme Court transgender athletes ruling, pivoting to the economy and Washington dysfunction.
Trump granted full pardons to more than half a dozen people, calling the prosecutions "weaponization."
This term, Justice Alito delivered major wins for conservatives on voting rights, immigration and guns. He’s given no indication that he’s ready to step down.
The USCGC Eagle, which leads the parade of tall ships in honor of America’s 250th birthday, is carrying a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence.
Kris Ramsingh, a Trinidad-born Virginia businessowner, calls birthright citizenship a 'slap in the face' to legal immigrants who worked hard.
Total disclosure, as Spielberg imagines it, is a beautiful thing to watch. It is also a fantasy.
Though “Idiocracy” and “The Godfather” topped their list, the sheer range of suggestions shows how there are many ways to understand the country.
The Declaration of Independence at 250.
The American federal system has survived for 250 years because it separates power and balances competing interests.
They may be waging a losing fight against the DSA’s ascension, but theirs is a venerable mission nevertheless.
Zohran Mamdani's allies want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. None of them have said what comes next.
Pope Leo XIV accepted the 2026 Liberty Medal virtually from the Vatican before departing for Lampedusa to urge Europe to accept more migrants.
Partisanship around the country’s big anniversary has put Democrats in a bind: They want to criticize the president without appearing unpatriotic.
A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better.
Trump pardoned people convicted of Clean Air Act violations who he said were "persecuted by the Biden Administration" and punished for "fixing their car."
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The Society of Saint Pius X ordained four bishops without a papal mandate. The Vatican responded with excommunication.
NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg on how Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and the UN's "civil society" experiment were hijacked — and why journalists still buy it.
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The ideas animating the Declaration and Wealth of Nations have profoundly shaped America and the modern world.
Democratic lawmakers affirm pride in American democracy and freedoms while voicing concerns about the administration ahead of the 250th Independence Day.
In Philadelphia, extreme temperatures forced the cancellation of some events, including the city’s big parade and a ceremonial pitching of George Washington’s field tent.
The Supreme Court’s ruling means that changing the law will take longer and be more wrenching than it would otherwise have to.
In both gunpowder and policy, the Continental Congress holds lessons for today.
Jefferson emerges as a man who doubted democracy's permanence yet placed his faith in future generations. Onuf and Cogliano rescue him from caricature—even if one dimension of his thought remains in shadow.
The boldness of American zeal is something to be championed at home and missed abroad, no matter what Europeans say about it.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
No, a ‘unitary executive’ doesn’t mean that the next Democratic president will be a dictator.
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Trump v. Barbara may come to be remembered not as the final word on birthplace citizenship but as another constitutional detour.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
President Trump declared communism the greatest threat facing the USA and vowed the country would never become a communist nation in his Mount Rushmore speech.
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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
The president used his clemency power to further undermine environmental laws and to help a political supporter who pleaded guilty in a fraud involving Jack Abramoff.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Needless to say, it is a mistake.
Apart from the Declaration and Constitution, there is perhaps no more essentially American document than Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet ‘Common Sense.’
Vance sees Christianity as a unifying force. His new memoir, "Communion," blames secularism for social strife and proposes faith as the solution. The book is not just a conversion narrative.
Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, said her lawsuit challenging the president’s changes to the performing arts center was a fight for justice.
We Americans should be proud of the ideals that guided our war of independence and the creation of our republic
A Supreme Court justice remembers the signers, soldiers, farmers, fifers, spies, and messengers who made the American Revolution-and reflects on our enduring task of forming 'a more perfect Union.'
Democratic governors urge Congress to reject the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the Boulder ExxonMobil lawsuit.
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The US vice president’s new memoir leaves an unflattering impression of its author.
Students with a right-of-center inclination aren’t interested in learning from climate alarmists or school-choice opponents.
Chuck Edwards accused Gov. Josh Stein of choosing partisanship over patriotism by boycotting the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.
Sliced bread. Soul food. Cheetos. Here are 25 inventions, crazes and cravings that defined the national diet, decade by decade.
To understand the intent of the US Declaration of Independence, recall that its primary author was a deist rather than a Christian.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
My adrenaline was pumping, and I had more or less learned how to use my ejector seat, but the flight was really a reminder of France’s role in securing American independence 250 years ago.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Karl Marx called religion the opium of the masses. A Catholic bishop warns that extreme socialists and communists in America threaten freedom of religion.
In his second term, the president has increasingly mused about his predecessors, comparing himself with some and distancing from the failures of others.
This resolution is another case of “rights” being granted to non-human entities without its framers understanding the consequences.
You can read as many history books as you’d like, but there’s nothing quite like stepping into the past and experiencing it for yourself.