The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

The book’s first major strength is Fraser’s astute attention to the diversity of religious higher education. Although he ...

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story of the revolution, and the war itself, could “put the ...

"Public News" founder Michael Shellenberger says America has moved beyond the post-war era of intensive globalization in an ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

Collateral damage — "injury inflicted on something other than an intended target" — is most often associated with war. It has ...

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells the story of James A. Garfield, the 20th U.S. President whose 1881 assassination changed ...

A report in the International Business Times exposes "deep fractures" inside the American right leading to an "explosive MAGA civil war," redefining what it means to be pro-Trump in 2025. On the ...