WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., held the Senate floor for 22 hours and 37 minutes in protest of what he described as ...

Led by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrats have seized the Senate floor to protest President Donald Trump’s presidency amid ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) concluded his marathon speech Wednesday afternoon, having held the floor for 22 hours and 39 ...

Trump and his allies campaigned for an award that has frequently been used to send a message as well as bestow an honor. Maybe next year. It was perhaps not a coincidence that the announcement Friday ...

Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter. Woodrow Wilson. Teddy Roosevelt. Al Gore. And Donald Trump? President Trump hopes to join the exclusive list of presidents and vice presidents who have received one of the ...

The oft-cited proverb, “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together,” gained renewed prominence when former U.S. Vice President Al Gore invoked it during his 2007 Nobel Peace ...

“We took the freedom of speech away,” President Donald Trump boasted in his opening remarks at his “antifa roundtable” Wednesday. The remark came as Trump touted an August 25 executive order seeking ...

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Half the states restrict efforts to change a person's identity in treatment. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Conversion therapy, or the attempt to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity ...

Mr. Caldwell is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.” When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of senior military officers ...

Donald Trump has found a new FCC target in the form of Rev. Al Sharpton. On Sunday, the president lashed out at the civil rights activist and TV personality in a Truth Social rant calling for the ...