Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Harper's Weekly image of the first reading of the Declaration of Independence outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July ...

A republic, if you can keep it,” Benjamin Franklin famously responded when asked by a Philadelphia socialite what it was that ...

"A republic, if you can keep it," Benjamin Franklin famously responded when asked by a Philadelphia socialite what it was ...

I have been in the United States for most of my life. I witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I could ...

*For generations, many Americans have described the United States as a “Christian nation.” The phrase appears in political ...

And with the Voting Rights Act shuttered, this antidemocratic drift will only accelerate. The drift has a long history. The South has been the country’s most antidemocratic region for most of U.S.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Barbara Clark Smith, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) As the nation observes ...

We’re a republic, not a democracy, goes a politically fashionable trope that happens to be both factually inaccurate and philosophically ominous. America’s 250th birthday is as good a time as any to ...