The Democratic Party is championing Kamala Harris as a born-again champion of freedom. Earlier this year, Democrats shifted their rhetorical focus from democracy to freedom, hoping the latter term ...

Re “The New Deal Is a Stinging Rebuke to Trump and Trumpism,” by Jamelle Bouie (column, nytimes.com, April 30): In his first 100 days in office, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, my grandfather, encouraged ...

MYTH Through a year of shocking reversals for the rule of law and democracy, a myth of Donald Trump’s inevitable ascendancy has taken hold. But that myth ignores how deeply unpopular Trump’s ...

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document declared the 13 colonies an independent nation from Great Britain. Though the Revolutionary War ...

When we’re willing to view life as the teacher, even in the midst of uncertainty, a journey begins. This journey—some might call it the spiritual path—challenges us to shift from fear of uncertainty ...

FEAR Drawing a line through Nazi-fighting wartime President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the author proposes that prevalent fear is the truest test and measure of democracy in a nation. The greater the ...