You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...