In a recent essay in The Guardian about whether America can ever recover from what happened after 9/11, the American feature writer Gary Younge says: An effective response to 9/11 that would have ...

With just months to go before the 250th birthday of the United States, thoughts this morning from bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson: We've got a big birthday coming up next year – our 250th. Here ...

Walter Isaacson's new book endeavors to "unpack" the "genius" of the Declaration of Independence "word by word, illuminating ...

Most people know the gist of the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and all that. But I never hear anyone quote the last sentence in which our Forefathers fully ...

The Declaration of Independence used to be read aloud at public gatherings every Fourth of July. Today, while all Americans have heard of it, all too few have read more than its second sentence. Yet ...

The snow and cold we had a few weeks ago was a perfect excuse — if you needed one — to curl up with a few good books. One of the first I read, “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,” was recommended by ...