Freedom

We need the U.S government to keep its promise. We need political asylum

Let's cultivate a culture of independent thinking and ethical leadership, enabling technological progress to align with our pursuit of freedom and responsibility.

When there is a rare opportunity to support a reform-minded leader and a democratic opening, the United States and other democracies should seize it.

A Cold War-era phenomenon in which literature that couldn't be printed inside the USSR was smuggled abroad and published there, has been revived.

When I was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 34, all I wanted was to be a mom.

The news of Alexei Navalny's death in a prison camp beyond the Arctic circle devastated me. Like countless other Russians, I believed that, someday, my native country would become happy and free.

Legacy media keeps getting it wrong. Breathless coverage of a foregone conclusion—the presidential primaries—makes The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and everyone else look foolish.

Texas was found to be the state with the fewest personal freedoms, according to the Cato Institute's new Freedom Index.

Some "democracies" don't look like democracies to Western eyes at all.

All voters must know those stakes and precisely what Trump is accused of.

If Africa's younger generations can shake off the bloated, corrupt bureaucracies that have plagued their continent since the colonial era, Africa could play a pivotal role in the global economy moving forward.

If we want to preserve our democracy, we have to defend the freedom of the press.

In today's America, First Amendment rights are constrained, and personal identities are policed and outlawed by an overbearing government.

The lessons learned on the costs of accommodating military strongmen without doing the hard work to bring civilian voices to the table are clear.

Tanks have been continually rumbling in my mind and heart since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre 34 years ago. We will commemorate the anniversary Sunday.

The basic assumption that is so widely held in the West—that people want freedom and democracy—does not always hold. Many want something else.

Equally important to what has been said and done at Israeli demonstrations is what has not been said and done.

From the Conservative Political Action Conference stage to statehouse floors across the country, the far right and Republican Party have manufactured a disinformation and hate speech campaign against transgender people. The false rhetoric they are deploying makes clear their intentions to deny trans people the ability to live safely and freely.

My mother says I was American before I knew what America was.

If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu had known the reaction it would get, he never would have launched the package of legislation he and his extreme-right-wing allies have dubbed, in proper Orwellian fashion, the "judicial reform."

Like the earth's surface, nations can be split by fault lines that lead to earthquakes. Once-unified nations like Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia have dissolved along their political fault lines. Ukraine is yet another nation sharply divided by religious, linguistic, and political fissures.

When people say, "because I disagree with what you said, you should lose your platform for saying it", that's a dangerous road.

Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams questioned why parents are allowed to make vaccination decisions but not decisions related to which courses their kids take.

The Right needs to gain cultural ground, just as much as it needs to pursue economic policies that made countries great.

The concept of the "other" can metastasize into religious, ethnic, and racial discrimination, radicalization, and eventually, violence.

With his "zero COVID" policy spurring China's largest anti-government protests in more than three decades, Xi Jinping now faces the challenge of maintaining his legitimacy not just at home but abroad.

What do new Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, Benjamin Netanyahu, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump have in common? All are popular leaders in democratic countries whose supporters are unafraid to support autocrats-in-training.

"That has struck such a nerve clearly across the country," Ryan said, "patriots from all parties standing up and saying 'this is not who we are as a country.'"

Despite being one of the grandest royal residences, William and Kate's Kensington Palace home can leave them feeling like "prisoners," a royal expert explained.

"Ridiculous. I don't treat [dear son] and [daughter in law] like this. They have their own lives to live," one user said.