They were making a bolder claim that became the foundation of the American Dream: that people could build meaningful lives if government protected liberty and then got out of the way. That idea still ...

Featuring iconic and everyday items, including a Revolutionary War gunboat and a first-generation iPod, “In Pursuit of Life, ...

“I think about our founders, and they in our Declaration of Independence talked about ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,'” she said outside Capitol Hill Wednesday. “And that is what the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 3-4, 2025) On this Independence Day, Beyond Pesticides calls for holistic solutions that, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, move the nation to ensure “certain ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A proposed bill filed in the Tennessee Legislature would designate June, July and August as months celebrating core American values. House Bill 0327 was first filed in ...

There’s a key line of the Declaration of Independence, whose passage we mark on the Glorious Fourth of July, now 249 years later: how the people of these United States “are endowed by their Creator ...

In Israel, she’s Palestinian. In the Arab world, she’s Israeli. In America, she’s an “other.” Through a panoply of vivid characters including her five-year-old self, an Egyptian casting director, her ...

“Aren’t some of us so smitten with the American dream that we have become brainwashed into believing that our sole purpose on this earth is to be happy?” writes Eric G. Wilson. In his book “Against ...

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