It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of Allegiance, partly as a cold war rejoinder to "godless" communism. We kept ...

At one point, she began reciting the Pledge of Allegiance but reportedly stopped ... dominated the headlines at the opening of the new Congress, the ceremony at the Senate was politically charged ...

The longtime bipartisan early childhood education program for poor families could lose its funding in the Trump ...

The Supreme Court has upheld an order directing Trump officials to “facilitate” the return of the Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador mega-prison. Leah Litman joins Chris Hayes to break ...

The first iteration of the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist minister, Francis Bellamy, in 1892. Congress adopted the pledge in 1942 during World War II and amended it in 1954 to ...

Ingram’s bill also would make an amendment to the state constitution requiring all public schools to conduct the Pledge of ...

One bill prohibits teachers from using names inconsistent with a student’s legal name or biological sex. On Wednesday, the ...

South Carolina Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrells Inlet, says the Pledge of Allegiance before a hearing in the Senate that ...

In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words ... “Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance builds nationalism and unity by promising to be faithful to our American ...

A bipartisan bill pending in the Ohio House would require public schools to pick a daily time to recite the pledge of allegiance in a bid to instill patriotism in Ohio youth. The bill, House Bill ...