Ahead of its 250th birthday, an empirical look shows the world’s leading country no longer stands so far apart ...

The future success of the U.S. will hinge on the ingredient that made America so powerful in the first place: immigration.

Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.

The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so, I retain a few fuzzy memories from a sunny summer afternoon in small-town Michigan: climbing on a cannon in ...

Fourth of July celebrations are taking place across the nation as the US turns 250, including in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump delivered a speech. Follow live updates.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Who gets to be “American”? In the United States ...

If America were a painting, it would almost certainly be a self-portrait. Ours is a nation obsessed with depicting and interpreting itself, usually with the boldest of brushstrokes. We’ve claimed an ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water that had been known since the mid-sixteenth century as the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

Section 1. Principles and Objectives. America’s investment policy is critical to our national and economic security. Welcoming foreign investment and strengthening the United States’ world-leading ...