Dave Weiner, a thoughtful contributor to these pages, cites the American Revolution as an example of freedom won by force of arms. But he confuses freedom with independence. We fought for our ...

The paradox of tolerance, a theory that challenges a society’s ability to defend democracy from within, is at the heart of the political turmoil plaguing the United States today. The idea, first ...

Statue of Liberty in the Champ-de-Mars. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Getty) “Give us liberty and give them death,” said David Duke at a rally for the Ku Klux Klan in Baton Rouge, La., in 1975. His ...

Throughout the United States, Americans are celebrating Independence Day. Even in a pluralistic society, with different worldviews and values, nothing unites the American people more than an appeal to ...

History has examples of freedom of speech and press that were abused by politicians to accomplish an agenda that resulted in serious consequences. The Weimar Republic constitution in Germany ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was no vaccine in sight and more than a thousand people who had contracted the virus were dying each day in the United States, Joseph Stiglitz, ...

When you hear the word "freedom," what comes to mind? For many, it's the ability to do whatever we want without restrictions.

The lifting of most COVID legal restrictions on July 19 has been dubbed “freedom day” by some politicians and journalists. Though not an official designation, this popularisation of this moment with ...

While Black Wall Streets were business hubs within larger cities, Freedom Colonies were rural, self-sufficient Black settlements built by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War. These ...

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