Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, ...

Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, ...

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession “a degradation and lessening of ourselves” and “an ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns and co-director David Schmidt recently visited Seattle to preview their new sweeping, six-part ...

The idea that America faces an inexorable, irreversible decline has become a form of conventional wisdom. Is this really true — or is it becoming so because of poor policy choices being made by its ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the ...

As historian Karen Brodkin tells it, socialism was “hegemonic” in American Jewish life before the Cold War. Not in the sense ...

If a Democratic president threatened to use government power to pressure a name change, conservatives would be up in arms.

Dan Murphy is executive director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Despite the Senate’s July 1 vote to protect states’ rights to keep residents safe, a moratorium is expected to once again ...

The DATA Act transformed the way federal agencies collect and report their spending information, changing culture around ...