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

Our government has stood the test of time and become so stable that we tend to forget Benjamin Franklin’s warning about working to keep our republic.

Polarization isn’t new. A Founding Father's wisdom can help lower the temperature of our politics. What Would Benjamin Franklin Do? Speaking from the Oval Office Sunday evening, 24 hours after ...

Benjamin Franklin would want us to take the covid-19 battle into our own hands We don’t need government direction to take the most effective step for stopping this outbreak ...

The cartoon, thought to be one of the most important in Amercan history, has a starting price of $40,000 at the auction. Rough cut (no reporter narration) ...

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The unprecedented political circumstances have created fodder for late night hosts around the country and at Showtime with " Our Cartoon President." Created by RJ Fried and executive produced by ...

We need civics and to be civil Civic education and partisanship I was in the grocery store the other day, and a man in front of me handed the cashier a hundred dollar bill (a “Benjamin ...

While researching our recent article about the Seal of the President of the United States, I came across a few myths about the National Emblem that required a little more investigation.

Got at least $40k? You could bid on historic copy of Ben Franklin’s ‘Join, or Die’ cartoon "Join, or Die" is a political cartoon showing a snake broken into eight pieces, and was first seen in ...

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SHOWTIME will premiere the second season of its animated comedy series OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT on Sunday, May 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and will feature an animated appearance from Queer Eye's Jonathan ...