Groups representing U.S. university professors seeking to protect international students and faculty who engage in ...

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

The legal battle over the Constitution’s 14th Amendment may be just beginning, after President Donald Trump decreed in an executive order — and six months later the Supreme Court did ...

This story was originally published on July 4, 2024. IDAHO FALLS – There was a “pensive and awful silence” as John Hancock ...

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In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide whether states may ban transgender students from playing on sports teams that ...

A course on the contested meanings of the Declaration of Independence has never been more relevant—or more politically ...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it.

One day after the Trump Administration sued the city of Los Angeles, challenging the constitutionality of its "sanctuary city ...