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Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of ...
This is a list of people granted political asylum for individual and publicly known reasons. They were persecuted because of their actions as individuals, not because they were members of a persecuted group. Individual reasons for persecution can be found in the notes column of the table.
Arendt says that political freedom is historically opposed to sovereignty or will-power since in ancient Greece and Rome the concept of freedom was inseparable from performance and did not arise as a conflict between the will and the self. Similarly, the idea of freedom as freedom from politics is a notion that developed in modern times.
This article lists times that items were renamed due to political motivations. Such renamings have generally occurred during conflicts: for example, World War I gave rise to anti-German sentiment among Allied nations, leading to disassociation with German names. A political cartoon lampooning the name change of hamburger meat during World War I
Arianna Huffington (born 1950), political commentator; Lawrence O'Donnell (born 1951), political commentator; Michael Moore (born 1954), filmmaker [46] Bill Maher (born 1956), comedian and political commentator; Keith Olbermann (born 1959), journalist and political commentator; Katrina vanden Heuvel (born 1959), journalist and political commentator
(The Center Square) – Freedom of speech is a critical issue for most Americans, over crime, immigration, and health care, a new poll says. Despite bipartisan agreement on its importance, there ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries using various measures of freedom ...
This is a list of notable libertarians in the United States. It includes people who have identified themselves as members of the Libertarian Party or with Libertarianism in their political or social philosophy