My name is Braylon; I’m currently 17 years old, and I am a part of Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, or AYEA, a group dedicated to making positive change for the environment in Alaska. You could ...

Photo of 20-year-old missing college student Sudiksha Konanki. (Courtesy Subbarayubu Konanki) The parents of Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old college student from South Riding, Virginia, who was last ...

As we approach Independence Day it behooves us to look again, this time very closely, at the document that initiated the “War of Independence,” inspired by the Constitution that established the United ...

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On the Fourth of July, a local retailer had a patriotic ad in The Forum e-paper appropriately expounding the virtues of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. To further add for accuracy, ...

In reading the Declaration of Independence this July 4, one of the reasons for declaring our independence struck me as being quite relevant to the politics of our time. It seems that our forefathers ...

Who’s going to declare the peace? To the editor: The Bible doesn’t condemn slavery, and in fact, justifies slavery and servitude where slaves are told to submit to their masters. Early Christian ...

To the editor: Lately, we have all seen how tenuous our freedoms have become. Anyone with even a passing understanding of history is likely as frightened as I am. On a recent trip, I was walking ...

The House has spent the last year demonstrating their lack of a basic understanding of our system of laws and recreating Ophelia’s mad scene on the floor. The latest nonsense from the Hill is the ...

WASHINGTON — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent," he said, ”is the very ...