Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We tend to think of freedom as an emancipatory ideal—and with good reason. Throughout history, the desire to be free inspired ...

Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among the ...

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 Vice President Kamala Harris rushed to Arizona late last week after the state Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning abortion in almost all cases, she began her speech with a stark declaration: ...

Let’s talk about freedom—because Kamala Harris certainly is, starting with her first campaign ad: “There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate,” she intoned. “But ...

Sixty-nine percent of Americans say the media have a lot of freedom, a record low and the first time the U.S. ranks below the OECD average.

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On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress, establishing the U.S. as a sovereign nation and liberating the country from British rule. This year, ...

Public artworks and zine-making workshops are on this year’s line-up, uniting artists and cultural organizations against an increasingly authoritarian administration.

The Freedom Phone is a new “free speech and privacy first” handset unveiled in July that’s raising red flags with journalists and security experts, who say it’s just a rebranded budget Chinese Android ...