We tend to think of freedom as an emancipatory ideal—and with good reason. Throughout history, the desire to be free inspired countless marginalized groups to challenge the rule of political and ...

In the legal battle between religious rights and gay rights, religious freedom gained a victory today. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the First Amendment’s religious-freedom protections ...

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress, establishing the U.S. as a sovereign nation and liberating the country from English rule. It's been 249 years since then, and ...

If you do get a chance to visit the Freedom Center, don’t miss these standout exhibits, according to Nimmo.

On Jan. 6, rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol building and disrupted democracy in action — in the name of saving the United States of America, so-called land of the free, from an election that was ...

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, ...

Freedom means different things to different people. But Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization that releases an annual report on freedom around the world, measures it in terms of civil ...

Richard Stengel is the former Editor of TIME, an MSNBC analyst, and the author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation. Freedom I can't move Freedom, cut me loose ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world What is freedom and why does it matter? Timothy Snyder’s answer is that “freedom is the absolute among absolutes, ...

For much of human history, most individuals have lacked economic freedom and opportunity, condemning them to poverty and deprivation. Today, we live in the most prosperous time in human history.

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 ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...