According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declara...
American News Project | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
An Independence Day look back at the radical influence of Thomas Paine, the often-overlooked founding father whose words sparked the American Revoluti...
Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Anyone who is the least bit candid on this issue knows that race permeates many aspects of American society. Why wouldn't the race issue pervade the election of a black presidential nominee?
Mariangela Anzalone | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
Obama is not Muslim. He's not a terrorist, either. He has said so many, many times. Yet the internet campaign continues. Addressing the matter again this week, he at last said what I wanted to hear.
Steven Waldman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Like many of the Revolutionary era, John Adams believed that if we weren't careful, God would damn us or at least withdraw his support.
Denise Clapsaddle | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home
Obama has tapped into a deeply felt societal sentiment that now is one of those moments that calls for something more than progress at the rate of one step forward, two steps back. Is he the one to lead us?
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
The fable that the U.S. was founded as a Christian Nation is just that -- a fable. It is worth noting that the Declaration of Independence does not invoke Jesus, or Christ, or Our Father.
Peter Smith | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics
Maybe the best compromise in the handgun case would be to allow the people of DC to keep and bear weapons that the Founders would recognize -- flintlocks and dueling pistols -- that sort of thing.
Eric Burns | Posted 11.05.2007 | Media
Alexander Hamilton was no less ambitious than Ryan Seacrest, but to Hamilton and the other Founding Fathers, fame was different then from what it is now.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
The founders were fighting and dying to escape the tyranny of a theocratic government. Why would they risk everything only to establish -- hell, to establish exactly what today's GOP wants?
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
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CNN | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics