This Fourth of July holiday season, it's worth taking stock of the state of freedom — and of our attitudes toward it — at home and around the world.

By the time someone gets to be chief executive of a successful firm, they have generally been trained out of saying anything surprising in public.

A myth says lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

As the Trump campaign flounders under the accumulated weight of the pandemic, the economic crisis, the mass protests and a Twitter account plugged straight into the president's limbic system, I wonder: What if the parties mattered?

Regarding statues, monuments and other public tributes to those once deemed great — which to do away with and which to keep — four familiar words can guide our choices: a more perfect union.

The New York Times last year came up with a project to debase America, to say this country is about nothing but slavery, that the institution has determined everything we are, that it instructs us to this day on the maltreatment of Black people.

In the latest of many cynical and highly political moves, the House of Representatives last week passed a measure that would transform the District of Columbia and make it the 51st state.

Have we replaced government "by the people" with rule by the mob?

If Americans took our national parks for granted before, they probably don't anymore.

What did we think would happen once boundaries were destroyed?

So now, the Supreme Court is in charge of the nation. It has scuttled the separation of powers while taking over the prerogatives of Congress and the executive branch.

President Donald Trump's speech Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a toxic stream of consciousness that ignored a great opportunity to speak words of healing and unity to a divided nation.

When it comes to wearing masks, public health officials, politicians and even some members of the media have gone out of their way to undermine their credibility.

"Policing itself started out as slave patrols. We know that," Rep. James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, declared in an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a plan to make reforms in police departments and acknowledged for the first time the existence of "systemic racism."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered Thursday that portraits of four of her predecessors be removed from the U.S. Capitol because they were part of the Confederate cause during the Civil War.

It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us.

On a recent episode of "The Glenn Show," a podcast hosted by Brown University professor Glenn Loury, academic and linguist John McWhorter asked the nagging question that should be top of mind for everyone attempting to unravel the state of race relations in the U.S.

The ancient Greeks created new words like "paradox" and "irony" to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer.

On Oct. 26, 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to a mostly African American audience in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In the two weeks since a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, I have heard no one — literally not a single person — defend officer Derek Chauvin's behavior in any way, shape or form.

Few things bring out the Irish in me more than the Chinese government dunking on the United States of America.

Which of the following would you consider the most unusual and least likely to occur?