Our Lady of Peace Church and PS 372 (R) on Carroll St. in Gowanus, near the Gowanus Canal. Helayne Seidman The purpose of public education in America was never just to teach basic literacy or ...

Virginia played a pivotal role in defining American ideals of liberty, from George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 to the debates over the U.S. Constitution in 1788. These moments ...

The Supreme Court seemed to have decided this question in its 2014 opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and its 2020 opinion in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v.

Liberty is a risky concept. That’s a truth we’re particularly aware of here in the United States. The right to free speech is a wonderful thing. For hundreds of years it’s given countless people the ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey called for Americans to continue the fight for liberty as she spoke at a remembrance of the Battle of Concord and the start of the Revolutionary War Saturday, saying ...

Regarding “Spring Branch ISD faces $24 million shortfall. Trustees must fight for,” (April 22): The recent opinion piece on the Spring Branch ISD school board race described Moms for Liberty as "more ...

The English language is rich in vocabulary drawn from French, Latin, Greek and many other languages. This allows us to describe the world drawing on a wide range of words. We have changed our ...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado in recognition “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just ...

The American heroes who stormed onto Normandy Beach 81 years ago to free Europe from Nazi tyranny are almost all gone now. Yet their heroism will never be forgotten. One who was there and survived was ...

When former President Barack Obama was in office, his administration fought all the way to the Supreme Court in an attempt to force Americans to act against their consciences by providing insurance ...