The recent US strikes on Iran have reignited a critical debate over war powers, highlighting Congress’s long-term abdication of its constitutional authority to declare war. -The failure of both the ...

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Some claim the Founding Fathers didn’t want a “wall of separation between church and state.” But Indiana experts say the answer is complicated.

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Some claim the Founding Fathers didn’t want a “wall of separation between church and state.” But Indiana experts say the answer is complicated.