Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Overseen by the conservative Heritage Foundation, the ...

A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. “Freedom is a fragile thing, and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction,” Ronald Reagan said ...

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

The latest in the Trumpite series of proposed oversized buildings is a so-called triumphal arch, though exactly what triumph so needs an arch is unclear, Adam Gopnik writes.