A truly “fair” tax code would be everybody paying the same percentage, say, 5%. Why should Elon Musk pay a higher percentage ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.

This opinion column started with a Letter to the Editor I wrote in November 2020 immediately after the election. My Republican friends and neighbors were aghast at the pending ...

Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives are every two years because the Framers of the Constitution wanted them to be close to the people.

the American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump. And I think that's a big part of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country is on the right ...

“IT is well known that the man, whom it delighteth the people to honor ... even to consider the notion that Thomas Jefferson could ever have been under the positive influence of an insignificant ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England ...

The Constitution does not grant Congress authority to set voter-eligibility requirements in federal elections.

People have the right to use this information or not but at least it is available. Instead of attacking the Vermont-recognized Abenaki tribes and calling us names based on misinformation ...

The amendment was proposed after the 1796 election resulted in a president (John Adams) and vice president (Thomas Jefferson) from opposing parties, and the 1800 election led to a tie between ...

If I were in the room, I’d ask each Republican member of Congress a simple but critical question: Why do you continue to vote in lock ... We the people have the power to hold the politicians ...