On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, Metallica presented a picture of what that nation should look like: ambitious, ...

This is how Fort Knox celebrated America's 203rd birthday in 1979.

Host Al Letson visits Bryan Stevenson’s Montgomery, Alabama, memorials confronting slavery's legacy as the US turns 250.

Yet, even as early as kindergarten, the daily pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America (and “the ...

July 4, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in ...

A woman was pushed onto the CTA train tracks in Chicago's Wrigleyville neighborhood on Thursday night.

This Independence Day, we will tell ourselves a lot of stories about what it means to be American. One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the ...

As Canadians celebrate their nation's birthday, independence movements in two provinces are eyeing the exit from the country.

Our country’s founders had their complaints about what George Washington dubbed the “infamous scribblers” in the press. But they recognized that robust and energetic journalism was critical to the fut ...

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities ...

Montesquieu shaped how Americans understood liberty, and his warning about a ‘tyranny of opinion’ speaks to today’s ...

U.S. firms increasingly operate in a marketplace where “Made in USA” is no longer a neutral provenance claim but a charged ...