The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

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As the U.S. celebrates 249 years of independence, we reflect on the milestones that shaped its democracy—an enduring ...

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If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

On March 4, 1986, the air outside US Capitol was biting, a mist of disillusionment hanging forebodingly like smoke from wet ...