Should we rethink K-12 education?
As education evolves, a central debate is emerging: embrace new models of learning or return focus to the traditional classroom?
The demographic cliff is here
What happens when there aren't enough students? The numbers behind America's demographic cliff and its toll on schools.
An ode to the sagebrush
Where does sagebrush grow? How does sagebrush survive? A horseback trip through the Nevada desert offers answers to bigger questions
Everyone should take religious freedom seriously
Why does religious liberty deserve top billing in the Constitution? Cardinal Timothy Dolan on faith as the foundation of American democracy
How the founders used biblical language to justify the American Revolution
Did the Bible inspire the Declaration of Independence? How divine sanction informed Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry and other founders
Compromise doesn’t mean surrender
Can we hold firm convictions and still respect those who disagree? A Harvard professor on confident pluralism and the art of meaningful compromise
Religious freedom undergirds the very existence of America
Why does the Bill of Rights place religious freedom first? The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on faith and governance.
The Declaration of Independence is Lincoln’s as much as Jefferson’s
Lincoln placed the Declaration’s ideals at the moral heart of America — and he was willing to defend them in the name of ‘all men’
What Philadelphia might have looked like in 1776
A young woman in Philadelphia witnesses the birth of the nation
America’s greatest piece of writing
Why was the Declaration of Independence so important? How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?