Freedom requires tolerating behaviors one might disapprove of. Laws should be justified by the harm they prevent, not personal preference. Government regulation should be carefully considered as it ...

Sir: On December 10, the world marked Human Rights Day, celebrating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This year’s theme, “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now,” is a ...

Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground;Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down.(Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Freedom ain’t free. As much as anyone can enjoy access to myriad venues ...

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s birthday on July 4, 2026, our station along with the rest of Gray Local Media will be marking significant dates in South Georgia ...

Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of “On Freedom.” I know a town in southern Ukraine where every single house has been destroyed by shelling or bombing. Even the ...

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 ...

ATHENS — Under a hazy sky Friday at Athens State University, Sherrie Register could not hold back the tears as she walked past the white roses, the small American flags and the names of veterans who ...

One way to evaluate how people around the world feel about free speech, free press, and internet use without state or government censorship is to compare views of how important these freedoms are with ...

Today Americans often use the words liberty and freedom interchangeably. But historian David Hackett Fischer, in his work “Liberty and Freedom,” draws a crucial distinction. The word liberty, rooted ...

Freedom! Freedom was the rallying cry of George Washington’s Continental Army during the revolutionary war. Freedom was the great cause of the abolitionist movement and the resulting, bloody civil war ...

It's after Memorial Day 2025 ... and I remember. I choose to. I freely choose to remember the names of young men with whom I served. Young men who went to hard places to do hard things. Young men who ...

Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about freedom. On occasion, we’re good for a “Chimes of Freedom” (at least Bob Dylan ...