The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an illegitimate child and stole his best friend's girlfriend. He also wrote a friend a ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... the rich did not—and Franklin contributed to the political controversy by advocating for it in A Modest Enquiry Into ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most skilled spellers will admit that English is a mess. In our woeful orthography, ...

President McInnis: consider selling your Tesla and taking a firmer stance against the White House's attacks on universities.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

Since 1754, when Benjamin Franklin published a political cartoon imploring the American colonies to “JOIN, or DIE,” the rattlesnake has been “a classic American character in a classic ...

History’s great Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” I would paraphrase Franklin’s wise words with this update: “Nothing is certain ...

Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle has returned to Parliament ... After Doyle’s press conference today, Peters said the MP and their political party were “hiding behind the rainbow community ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...