Fireworks, grilling, time with friends and family. These are all hallmarks of a July 4 holiday weekend. As we started preparing for it, I started to think more about “independence” and what it means ...

There is a longstanding debate as to whether people have free will, defined as the capacity to make decisions independent of the external world. The existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre suggested ...

“Being independent” sounds like freedom. No curfew, your own money, your own choices. For a lot of teens, that picture looks like instant adulthood where you handle everything yourself and never need ...