The Law Society GazetteOpinion

What has the rules-based order ever done for us?

The launch is a good time to reflect on a phrase so often bandied about – the ‘international rules-based order’ – and what it ...
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 ...
UVA Today

UVA’s rare copy of the Declaration of Independence visiting the Rotunda

In Albany, New York, in 1955, someone rifling through an attic came across a bundle of documents. The importance of the documents themselves, if there was any, has been lost to the ages. But the paper ...
Tennessean

When is Tennessee's major disaster declaration coming?

It's been a week since Gov. Bill Lee asked President Donald Trump for an expedited major disaster declaration for Tennesseans. It still hasn't been approved, but that's not uncommon. Winter Storm Fern ...

I don’t believe the ‘experts’ who say trans athletes have no advantage over women

In an episode first broadcast on October 27, 1970, Monty Python’s Flying Circus featured a sketch about a boxing match. One ...
Portland Press Herald

Maine copy of the Declaration of Independence to tour state

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UVA Today

8 things to know about UVA’s copies of the Declaration of Independence

Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, one of the University of Virginia’s rare and valuable copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, will go on display in the Rotunda ...
The Courier-Journal

Louisville's rare Declaration of Independence copy returns to public view

A rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence owned by Louisville Metro Government is now on public display. The document is one of 200 exact copies commissioned by John Quincy Adams to preserve ...
New York Post

With America’s 250th in sight, these books illuminate the true spirit of the Declaration of Independence

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...
The Economist

The Declaration of Independence still defines America’s purpose, writes Jon Meacham

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...
Reason

Chief Justice Roberts on the Declaration of Independence

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to constitutional interpretation and judicial review. In his year-end report ...