LONDON — The Balfour Declaration was short — 67 words — but the letter sent 100 years ago Thursday from Britain's foreign secretary to the head of an influential Jewish banking family has had ...

Reading your May 7 front-page sub-headline, “Sisolak sets date to end coronavirus declaration,” made me shake my head in amazement. There’s nothing like an upcoming election to push an oligarch into ...

Thomas Jefferson's proposition, in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal" is a literary technique. Its truth, the proposed "idea" upon which a new nation was to be based, is ...