The Democratic Party is championing Kamala Harris as a born-again champion of freedom. Earlier this year, Democrats shifted their rhetorical focus from democracy to freedom, hoping the latter term ...

FEAR Drawing a line through Nazi-fighting wartime President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the author proposes that prevalent fear is the truest test and measure of democracy in a nation. The greater the ...

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his famous Four Freedoms speech, outlining a vision of American ideals for the world. In this speech, he identified four essential freedoms that ...

FEAR This image from last June’s confrontation with riot police in Los Angeles underscores our contributor’s argument that fear itself is the most reliable barometer of a democracy’s health. As ...

Sept 3 (Reuters) - Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni underscored the role of police to provide "freedom from fear" in democracies in a speech to Pacific Islands police chiefs on Tuesday, noting ...

I broke down and spent the money to have a poster framed. I’ve had it for years. It belonged to my parents, and it was an insert in the New York Post magazine in 1943. It’s a Norman Rockwell piece and ...

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document declared the 13 colonies an independent nation from Great Britain. Though the Revolutionary War ...