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Religious values, deeply rooted in texts, serve as an important motivator for giving. Religious Americans volunteer more, give more, and give more often.

‘Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.’ It’s often misunderstood, by many Americans. A constitutional scholar explains what it really boils down to.

Lawmakers are seeking to downplay the role that slavery played in the development of the United States, but history tells a different story.

For much of the country’s history, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and racial equality, and the Democratic Party backed Jim Crow laws and white supremacy. The two parties switched.

Colleges and universities should apply the best techniques of research and education to their own decision-making.

The First Amendment, along with a lack of clarity on what counts as an educational mission for charities, can lead authorities to approve applications from extremist groups.

The increasing visibility of a wide range of militia and vigilante groups has repeatedly caught local communities and national leaders off guard.

The president threatened North Korea and decried the decimation of the American middle class – but didn’t have much praise for the work of the United Nations.

Chaplin’s 1940 film ‘The Great Dictator’ mocks Hitler’s absurdity and overweening vanity, while highlighting Germany’s psychological captivity to a political fraud.

In the 1990s, older Californians struggled to make way for a younger, more diverse generation. Here’s how that ‘racial generation gap’ transformed the state – and what it means for the rest of the US.