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This touring exhibition offers an alternative perspective to the idea that the UK is a nation divided.
Whether the American Dream is centered in economic mobility or personal freedom, many citizens believe its achievement has grown more elusive.
New Zealand compares well on global measures of freedom, happiness and transparency. But rankings in some important areas, including climate, drag the averages down.
Whistleblowers’ stories show how accountability is shifting from formal legal institutions to solidarity networks built outside the state.
Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be difficult to reverse the trend. What does it take for democracies to bounce back from periods of autocratic rule?
‘In America, the law is king!’ ‘No King! No Tyranny!’ For a skeptical Thomas Paine, every day was ‘No Kings Day.’
Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.
Retirement is not just an event, it’s a process of transition that can have a huge impact psychologically, not just professionally.
Mauritians were determined to bring change following a wide range of failures by Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth’s government.
Dictatorial regimes are increasingly reaching across borders to crack down on dissent or punish critics.
Republicans have long focused on freedom as an election issue. Kamala Harris appears to be shifting the Democrats’ strategy to offer a rival view of what freedom means.
The most important value, Joseph Stiglitz argues, is freedom. But his is a broadened concept of freedom.
Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.
Brain-computer interfaces may present threats to cognitive liberty. But with or without them, we often overestimate how independent our own minds are, an ethicist writes.
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to choose which materials they want to read.
To be homeless is a condition in which a person’s freedom is profoundly compromised. And that’s un-American, says a philosopher.
Court decisions based on a judge’s discretion rather than the letter of the law are increasingly common. But this risks undermining some basic liberties.
The same boldness that enabled hip-hop to endure can benefit teachers in the classroom, a hip-hop scholar writes.
The hijacking of freedom by far-right politicians like Florida’s Ron DeSantis raises crucial questions about whose freedom is truly at stake in a time of tyranny.
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