While Frederick Douglass would probably be disappointed (but not surprised) that the so-called land of the free hasn’t lived up to its promises of liberty all even centuries after he delivered his rousing speech, “What to the Slave Is The Fourth of July,” I imagine that he would be proud to see his descendants continuing his legacy of speaking truth to power.

On July 4, 1776, representatives of 13 colonies on the eastern shores of North America signed a Declaration of Independence from England. Winning independence was still a bloody war ahead, an unlikely outcome. Declaring independence was rashness, potentially carrying a death sentence for treason. Not, perhaps, what you would expect of well-educated men...

An excerpt from “Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Sovereignty of the People” by Randy Barnett.

Leonard Bernstein conducts Wiener Philarmoniker.

July 4th shouldn't be a day of celebration. It should be a day of mourning.

We won't all be celebrating the same thing this July 4th. By Collin Woodward.