It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just this kind of ... Most notable was his 1744 publication of Cicero’s Cato Major, a 44 B.C. essay on aging and death, translated by James Logan.

The Senate approved Republicans’ budget blueprint just after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday to clear the way for passing President ...

Hours before the 25 percent tariff on cars made in Canada went into effect, the largest auto plant in Windsor, Ontario, ...

Benjamin and Deborah Franklin spent all but two of their final ... empathetic—it’s hard to imagine he would have written an essay like “On the Death of Infants,” which was inspired by ...

Each year, the debate over changing clocks becomes more and more popular, stirring up discussions. What is your opinion?

Nick Ciongoli has earned a Magna Cum Laude certificate on the National Latin Exam, and at the Best Delegate Model United ...

The birth of our country may feel like a familiar story. But in making a documentary about it, we found plenty of revelations ...

As Encyclopedia Britannica says, “The practice was first suggested in a whimsical essay by Benjamin Franklin in 1784.” It was then implemented in the United States on March 31, 1918 ...

Daylight saving time​ in 2025, when clocks change by an hour, has started. Here's a look at when exactly we "spring forward." ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

At The Guardian, Rebecca Solnit indicted the American news media for its failures during the 2024 election: ...