In 1941, just after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt rode to Congress in a seized armored limo once owned by gangster Al Capone. It was the only bulletproof car available. Today, presidential ...

Every year of my journalistic career of nearly half a century, I have known only a free and independent press in the United ...

Martin Baron warns that democracy cannot survive without a free press. On World News Day, he reflects on America’s fragile ...

The state visit of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to Britain has undeniably been a success. The U.S.

On March 13, 1933, nine days after a newly elected Franklin D. Roosevelt declared in his first inaugural speech that the nation had “nothing to fear but fear itself,” Charles W. Chambers dashed off a ...

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The state visit of President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump to Britain undeniably was a success. The U.S. leader can be temperamental and demanding. Trump was positive throughout the ...

Known as ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’, the US is facing questions over media independence.

Those were years when Americans could see clearly how the press served democracy: With the publication of the Pentagon Papers, first by The ...