Rediscovering a timely 1986 doc about immigration, plus the week’s best films in L.A.

George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" in 35mm, "Grease 2" at the Los Feliz Theatre and anti-fascist films at UCLA.

Why the ‘pursuit of happiness,’ 250 years later, remains the Declaration of Independence’s most novel phrase

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the ...
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We are getting our ‘pursuit of happiness’ all wrong, but there’s a simple fix

When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our unalienable rights include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, he had a very specific definition of happiness in mind.
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America’s founders had specific ideas about the ‘pursuit of happiness.’ Now they have been put to music

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! During the COVID lockdowns, Jeffrey Rosen, director of the National Constitution ...