The 118th Congress opened with a rare fight for the speaker’s gavel in the U.S. House of Representatives. After 15 ballots, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., emerged as the new House speaker, but only ...

Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about her policy platform on Aug. 16, 2024, in Raleigh, North ...

Negative freedom (also known as liberal freedom) is freedom from interference. There can be a master (a king, central authority, government, etc.), but as long as the master is benign and does not ...

Yale historian Snyder follows up On Tyranny, his grim but heady look at the ways freedom can get chipped away, with a more soporific rumination on how freedom can be maintained. Snyder contends that ...