Jill Lepore A staff writer covering history and politics.

Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has missed few chances to flex the power he wields over the nation’s most ...

Getting stuck in Baltimore traffic is nothing new, and neither are the city's traffic lights. WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates examines why.

Hazing has been illegal in Ohio since 1983, but it was classified as a misdemeanor. Under Collin’s law, which was named in ...

Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is not the right leader ...

Thornton Wilder is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: one for his 1927 novel, “The ...

Durango is known for its shootouts in the Wild West days, and now, we’re about to witness a shootout – of the photographic ...

This detail is from the poster promoting the Nov. 20 “The Martyrs of La Florida: Lessons on the New Evangelization” program ...

An online debate began when a European man lampooned the concept of American culture. Then a lot of Americans began agreeing ...

This article explores the world of snowbirds — people who escape cold northern winters by heading south to warmer states like ...

For more than a century, the cultural norm in the United States was that nudity was acceptable—at least within same-sex ...

The economic facts are clear: policies that redistribute resources via high taxes and heavy spending lead to economic malaise.