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Americans say we value free speech, but recent surveys suggest we love the ideal more than practice, a division that will harm more than it protects.

Journalism got a big wake up call in 2016. Can we be optimistic about the future of media?

The incredible story of a scientist who survived gulags, fighting to change his country and physics.

The bedrock of freedom? Denying the government the power of censorship.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions often found himself at odds with the president during his nearly two-year tenure.

Freedom and democracy are great, but our understanding of what those things are has changed a lot since we came up with them.

Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.

As voting becomes digital, we should consider rewarding voters for taking part in the process.

Voter turnout in the United States is pretty low compared to other industrialized countries. While the 2016 US presidential election saw a 56% turnout rate, the 2017 general election in […]

Instead of focusing on President Donald Trump, the Slovenian philosopher says liberals should incrementally challenge the fundamentals of the economic system.

The tax coffers for the entire country will be growing rapidly, and citizens of Canada will be able to access what they need.

How the U.N. hatched the most ambitious plan in the world.

Crowdsourcing as an idea isn’t anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today.

Yale professor Amy Chua on the identity of nations, why hardened tribes end up in civil wars, and why you can’t just replace dictators with democracy.

Have you been feeling like democracy is in trouble lately? According to this report, you’re right. 

Many great minds have plenty of bad things to say about democracy, but what about the people who think it is great?

While we often criticize the humanities for not providing an education that leads directly to employment, one philosopher argues they have an even more important role to play in our societies.

Why doesn’t America win wars anymore? Because the objectives are so poorly defined. Maybe it’s time to rethink foreign policy.

AI is leaving human needs and democracy behind in its race to accomplish its current profit-generating goals.

The #1 problem with America’s mission to spread democracy? We don’t know how to do it.

Elitism has come under fire since the recent wave of populist politics. But when we don’t listen to experts, we end up listening to politicians’ lies, says Richard Dawkins.

Mathematicians are working to combat partisan gerrymandering.

Can democracy remain vibrant if the public, and especially children, don’t have the tools to distinguish sense from nonsense?

A new study questions why some people support “free speech”.

Billionaire George Soros, the subject of countless conservative conspiracy theories, funds the opposition to President Trump’s agenda.

Limiting speech doesn’t change the nature of hate, says Josh Lieb. Thoughts can be hateful and stupid—but should they be criminal?rn

Astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals if he’d run for President and what he would do if elected.

What if the vision wasn’t just to have politicians who are science literate, but actual scientists running the joint – would it be any better than it is now?

The United States of America is as divided now as it has ever been. Why is this? One author suggests that it is because we have never been one united nation, but 11 differing ones. Founded for different reasons and striving towards conflicting goals, can they ever learn to get along again?

Before we had the right to vote, we had the right to protest, says journalist Wesley Lowery.