The founders simply wanted to prevent Congress and the federal government from establishing a national religion.

Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...

Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas have all passed laws -- now on hold -- to mandate the biblical laws' display in classrooms. mtcurado/iStock via Getty Images Plus All three laws have been at least ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

Indiana joins multiple Republican-led state legislatures seeking to display the Ten Commandments in government buildings, ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Litigation over posting the Ten ...

A Ten Commandments poster is seen with boxes of others before they were delivered to local public schools in New Braunfels, Texas, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. A federal appeals court appears open to ...

Gov. Mike Braun is pushing to bring a controversial monument back to the lawn of the Indiana Statehouse. The monument, donated by the Indiana Limestone Institute, is a giant slab of limestone ...

Debbie Leimback displays one of the hundreds of Ten Commandments posters she was preparing to deliver to local public schools in New Braunfels, Texas, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Eric Gay/AP.) ...

The polarizing court battle over Texas’ Ten Commandments display law has reignited the debate over religion in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the requirement, ...

An Arkansas Federal District Court recently ruled unconstitutional an Arkansas statute requiring public schools to "prominently display" a 16-by-20-inch poster of the ...