The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.. The power of the presidency has grown substantially since the first president, George Washington, took office in 1789.

The 1928 publication of anthropologist Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa brought the sexual revolution to the public scene, as her thoughts concerning sexual freedom pervaded academia. Mead's ethnography focused on the psychosexual development of adolescents in Samoa.She recorded that their adolescence was not, in fact, a time of "storm and stress" as …

国境なき記者団が2020年に発表した世界報道自由度ランキング（Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2020）では、対象となる180カ国中、報道の自由が保障されている国として、ノルウェー、フィンランド、デンマークなどがあげられている。

Before 2004, in the "Freedom of the Press" report, published by the American organization Freedom House, Italy had always been classified as "Free" (regarding the freedom of press). In 2004, it was demoted to "Partly Free", due to "20 years of failed political administration", ...

Economic freedom, or economic liberty, is the ability of people of a society to take economic actions.This is a term used in economic and policy debates as well as in the philosophy of economics. One approach to economic freedom comes from the liberal tradition emphasizing free markets, free trade, and private property under free enterprise. Another approach to …

The Colbert Report (/ k oʊ l ˈ b ɛər r ɪ ˌ p ɔːr / kohl-BAIR rih-por) is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December 18, 2014, for 1,447 episodes. The show focused on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life …

The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders since 2002 based upon the organisation's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year. ... A smaller score on the report corresponds to greater freedom of the press as reported by the organisation. The ...

Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. In recent years Access to …

"Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people, instituted during the Clinton administration.The policy was issued under Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 on December 21, 1993, and was in effect from February 28, 1994, until September 20, 2011. The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating …

The Report to the American People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963 in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Expressing civil rights as a moral issue, Kennedy moved past his previous appeals to …

Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.. Forms of corruption vary, but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.Corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money …

Habeas corpus (/ ˈ h eɪ b i ə s ˈ k ɔːr p ə s / (); from Medieval Latin, lit. 'that you have the body') is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

Kevin Costner says it's 'OK' if people don't like him for his politics. Kevin Costner doesn't care if he loses fans over his politics. Costner, an Independent, voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020 — the latter came after his first pick, now-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, dropped out of the Democratic presidential race.

The New Freedom was Woodrow Wilson's campaign platform in the 1912 presidential election, and also refers to the progressive programs enacted by Wilson during his first term as president from 1913 to 1916 while the Democrats controlled Congress. First expressed in his campaign speeches and promises, Wilson later wrote a 1913 book of the same name.