House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) celebrated his re-election as speaker on Friday by reading from a prayer that he falsely attributed to American founder Thomas Jefferson. Salon's Amanda Marcotte ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...