In a time when respectful debate seems impossible, high school speech and debate clubs have persevered. Debate team members and sponsors see the activity as even more important in a fracturing society ...

This week the IRS announced it would no longer apply the Johnson Amendment to houses of worship. This means that synagogues ...

From Louisville to Versailles, the French influence still echoes in the names of Kentucky cities and counties today.

In hoping to refresh America — and it would appear we desperately need it — it would be helpful if we got back to our civic ...

Civic engagement, individual and collective actions aimed at addressing public opportunities and challenges, is fundamental to constitutional republics in healthy societies.

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

The concert on June 18 led by the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra (UPSO) dubbed “Alay sa Pamantasan ng ...

Nearly 10 months after downtown Reading celebrated the opening of its second hotel, the other hotel -- a center city landmark -- is now set to close.

The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those ...