American voters have spoken. And in our 250th anniversary year, it's encouraging to know that our Constitutional order has survived another election. Yes, we finalize our political battles in the private voting booth. It appears yet again that the majority of American voters prefer a divided ...

Colorado politicians promised the state's families universal pre-K programs — but snatched the promise back from Catholic parents who want to choose a school that supports their religious beliefs. Parents fought them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Tuesday the justices heard oral ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a recent afternoon, April Polk was driving to a doctor's appointment when her assistant flagged something in her business inbox: a grant application, the kind of funding opportunity a small retailer cannot afford to miss. The assistant offered to fill it out while she ...

It's easy to forget that Americans are voting in a year that marks the 250th anniversary of the nation's Declaration of Independence. You don't hear much about the declaration in the campaign rhetoric, and most people would bristle at the notion that the sublime message of the founding document ...

America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have ...

Today is Tuesday, November 3. That should ring a bell, especially if you receive land mail, spend time online, watch TV, listen to the radio or are plugged into the world in any way at all. Today is Election Day. It’s the day candidates have anticipated with an emotional mix of hope, dread, ...