Today commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress in 1776. It proclaimed the separation of the 13 colonies from Great Britain. In other words, Happy 249th ...

Explore the deeper meaning of freedom beyond politics and individualism. Kathryn Jean Lopez delves into civic duty, virtue, and the wisdom of Thomas Merton and Edith Stein to redefine true freedom.

Freedom means different things to different people. For some, it might be financial freedom; for others, it might be freedom ...

Religious freedom has been at the center of American history since the founding. (And by the founding, I mean of the United States of America, not including the roughly century-and-a-half of colonial ...

Financial freedom refers to the ability of an individual to live a life free from financial worries, constraints, or limitations. It is a state of being where an individual has enough money to cover ...

In Geneva’s stately League of Nations palace, biggest building in Switzerland, the United Nations held its biggest international conference—on the world’s press. Three hundred and fifty delegates from ...

The “American dream,” born out of the Great Depression in 1931, has shifted away from material possessions to a more holistic pursuit of freedom and family life, according to a sweeping new ...

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth believe in academic freedom, but not the way it’s come to be understood in 2022, with social media spewing hate (among other things) and with colleges employing many ...

America is a symbol of freedom all over the world, enjoying as it does freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press. Our ancestors prized these political freedoms so much that many ...