Beyoncé's embrace of the U.S. flag during her “Cowboy Carter” stage shows may be confusing to her critics and her fans.

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.

But for a lot of Americans, the celebration, and the flag itself, are more complicated than that. That’s the question that Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show, is setting out to tackle this ...

And although the day is extremely significant and the longest-running Black holiday in the U.S., the emancipation proclamation was only the beginning of Black Americans’ fight for freedom.

When Trump lands in Alberta for the annual G-7 meeting, he will be arriving in Canada’s oil heartland, where a passionate minority backs becoming the 51st U.S. state.

Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and ...

The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people, women and members of the LGBTQ ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

The lawsuit filed Tuesday argues that the family’s arrests after fleeing Honduras and entering the U.S. legally using a Biden ...

For nearly 50 years, the Mountain States Legal Foundation has been using the courts to keep big government at bay. Now, the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued decisions on the final six cases that were left on its docket for the summer, including ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what Independence Day means to them.