How 'the greatest sentence ever written' defined a new nation

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...
University of Chicago News

As America turns 250, how the Declaration of Independence endures

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...
The New York Times

For America’s Birthday, a Declaration of Independence Whodunit

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration made soon after July 4, 1776. By Jennifer Schuessler Before the Declaration ...
Health Affairs

Court Vacates Kennedy Declaration On Transgender Health Care

The HHS secretary's declariation had asserted that treatment for gender dysphoria in young people is not safe or effective and attempted to exclude health care providers that offer this care from ...
Wall Street Journal

Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editor at Large Gerard Baker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz discuss the war in Iran, the 2028 Republican primaries, and whether Mr. Cruz would accept ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here’s How the Founding Document Reached the American Public

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.
csis.org

Northwood Declaration: The Future of European Deterrence?

At the Munich Security Conference two weeks ago, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron underscored a deepening strategic alignment between their countries. Starmer ...
Smithsonian Magazine

You Can Buy a Rare Broadside Copy of the Declaration of Independence From July 1776

This rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence will be sold in May. Goldin A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence is going up for sale this May, the auction house Goldin announced ...
JD Supra

Guidance on Rule 132 Declarations for Patent Eligibility

Easier path to eligibility: The USPTO’s new guidance explains how to use sworn statements (SMEDs) to provide facts showing an invention is eligible for a patent. Effective immediately: The memoranda ...
Fox News

Protecting the Declaration of Independence in our 250th year

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...
CNN

NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies

In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for a ...