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, ...

During a mass at the Cathedral in Vilnius dedicated to the anniversary of the 1863-1864 uprising, Lithuanian President ...

For any New Yorkers still wedded to the notion that slavery was a story that unfolded squarely in the South, the recently released book “Brooklynites” should be eye-opening. In "Brooklynites," history ...

In March 2023, President-elect Donald Trump proposed building ten new Freedom Cities to unleash American innovation. Trump envisioned these cities as hubs to revive American manufacturing, recreate a ...

On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order instructing the Justice Department to investigate and end any violations of free speech by the federal government. If Trump had ...

Genevieve Johnson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In the early 1930s, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, then based at the London School of Economics, jotted off a memo to the school's director, William Beveridge. At the time, the Great Depression ...

It’s by far the most resonant word in the American political discourse—and for decades, Democrats let Republicans own it. No longer. Let’s talk about freedom—because Kamala Harris certainly is, ...

Though two-thirds of Americans believe press freedom is very important, only a third say that the media is actually completely free to report the news, according to a Pew Research Center study ...

Freedom in the United States is a word that has had more than one meaning. It has meant freedom for some people and the repression of others. In a democracy, freedom also means the right to take part ...

Freedom of the press in the United States is legally protected by the First Amendment, which famously declares: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Nearly ...