The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.
Discover the story of the American Revolution in just one minute! This simplified overview covers the key events, causes, and outcomes that led to America's fight for independence..
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Make 2026 the Year of Thomas Paine

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, remember the founder who rallied the people against British and American oligarchs.
It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...
Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...
The huge division in our country is not just political; it has grown to be personal. We look with hate toward those whose ...
I T MAY BE hard to imagine today, but in the 1960s and 1970s Venezuela was hailed as a model democracy. Then the oil price ...
Has the sport of figure skating ever seen anyone quite like American prodigy Ilia Malinin? Here's the quick answer to that ...
Mitterrand promised the same magical economic results. The French economy collapsed, and socialist policies had to be rolled back.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a football fan, now is quarterbacking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team as it ...
However, stupid people are not the same as bandits. "When stupid people are at work," Cipolla writes, "the story is totally ...
As Fallout is at pains to keep mentioning, war never changes. The fourth episode of Fallout season 2 makes that abundantly ...