A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

Fireworks, of course. Anything more? As you may already know, July 4 this year marks 250 years since a fellow named John Dunlap, the official printer for the Continental Congress, printed the first ...

We're here at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. It's just *** stone's throw from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was debated and then adopted July 4th, 1776.

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely "proclaimed." Couriers carried the printed version by ...

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Board member Kate Odell and Anduril Industries President Christian Brose discuss U.S. defense challenges, the shift toward scalable ...

Nigeria's Ministry of Interior, under the leadership of Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, will announce a public holiday for the Workers' Day (May Day) celebration 2026 The official declaration is expected before ...

Tennessee voters will see new language on primary election ballot applications. The new text requires voters to declare they are a bona fide member of the party whose primary they are voting in. This ...

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.

Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek in 'Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair' David Bukach/Disney Despite five unruly boys (and counting) making their lives hell in Malcolm in the Middle, Hal and ...