Results

Eric Talmadge is a veteran journalist working for the Associated Press’s Pyongyang bureau in North Korea. Since 2013 he has spent about ten days a month inside the country, always accompanied by an agent of the state. “I just assume that everything I say, to anyone, is on the record,” says Talmadge.…

In Argentina, a court has described a 29-year-old Sumatran orangutan as a ‘Non-human person’ with rights of liberty. The court said the Buenos Aires Zoo was ‘depriving the ape of its liberty.’ A lawyer speaking after the decision said the ruling sets a precedent ‘for other sentient beings which are unfairly…

In their new book, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Henry Biller, University of Rhode Island-Kingston and Anthony Scioli, Psychology professor at Keene State College in Keene, N.H. express the need for hope. “Hope brings a special kind of happiness, a more permanent form. Hopeful people are sustained by the…

As a symbol of the new policy of openness citizens of Hungary planned an event at the border to the free nation of Austria. Originally, they planned to take a bus over the border, visit a small Austrian village and return. Plans changed when several hundred East Germans heard about the event and decided…

FREEDOM During a recent speech to the National Religious Broadcasters, Attorney General John Ashcroft called on Americans to look to their faith when questioning whether the Justice Department is acting appropriately. He said the United States is called to defend freedom, which is not granted by government,…

Where liberty dwells, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin

Live Free or Die For many years the license plates of New Hampshire bore the slogan, made famous by Revolutionary War general John Stark - "live free or die." The irony is that those great words were printed onto the license plates by inmates in the state prison. They could not leave their prison, but…

\\ Their Sacrifice, Our Freedom Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost…