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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 ...
When you were growing up, who was your favorite hero? Was it a fictional superhero like Superman or Batman? Or maybe it was a ...
We have Lincoln wrong: Our greatest Lincoln historian explains his real Civil War motivations Too often, we settle for the idea that Lincoln fought to save a mythical union. He really fought for ...
The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those ...
The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.
This week the IRS announced it would no longer apply the Johnson Amendment to houses of worship. This means that synagogues ...
The power of the American ideal comes not from Americans being a “particular people” with a common heritage—an ...
John Thornhill’s column on artificial intelligence, entitled “We are the new gremlins in the AI machine” ( Opinion, June 27), was truly amazing, and it clearly highlights the challenges in the realm ...
In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...
Watermelon Pictures is testing the market with Cannes-premiering To A Land Unknown among a handful of well-reviewed and ...
On Good Friday, 1865, a man entered his room in Washington’s National Hotel. He’d be leaving on a one-way trip in a few hours ...
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