They’re Some of the Most Famous Words Ever Written. Have You Ever Really Read Them?

It’s poetry, philosophy and polemic, all in a little more than 1,300 words and all represented in its second and most famous ...
AZ Central

12 ways to celebrate the Declaration at 250. First: Read it

Across eight months of conversations with historians, legal scholars, museum leaders, and theologians, USA250’s Outspoken project asks how the American ideals of liberty and equality have changed ...
BBC

No obligation to declare £5m gift, Farage says

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said there was "no obligation" to declare a £5m gift he received from a billionaire backer before he became an MP. In a Telegraph interview, external last week, ...
The New Yorker

Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits?

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...
The Conversation

What the Declaration of Independence does – and doesn’t – say about God

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...
Wall Street Journal

Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editor at Large Gerard Baker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz discuss the war in Iran, the 2028 Republican primaries, and whether Mr. Cruz would accept ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Refresher Course: How is the U.S. in a war when Congress has made no declaration?

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. The U.S. is currently at war with Iran, even though ...
WTOP News

‘Restoring the rule of law’: Why declaring war matters

It’s been less than a week since the beginning of the war with Iran. While the United States has not declared war on Iran, it has — along with Israel — killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...
CBS News

Are Iran strikes legal? Here's how the U.S. Constitution defines declarations of war.

The military strikes against Iran have sparked intense debate in Congress. U.S. lawmakers are not only split on whether to support the operation but also on whether President Trump should have sought ...
The New Yorker

Do U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?

Whether a nation has just cause to begin a war and whether it conducts that war justly are matters of international law. Whether a U.S. President has the power to declare war is a matter of American ...
USA Today

Are the US and Israel at war with Iran if Congress hasn't declared it?

The United States and Israel carried out military strikes against Iran on Saturday, Feb. 28 targeting the country's top leaders and plunging the Middle East into a conflict that President Donald Trump ...