Freedom is central to the American experience — it’s a recurring motif in the founding documents that established our republic and it gets invoked to sell everything from gasoline to foreign wars. But what does freedom really mean to us? Chris Colin’s latest feature in The California Sunday Magazine, “Freedom Is __________” tackles the unclear definition of America’s most treasured cultural value.

He joins us to explain how he reported the piece and explain how President Trump goes beyond simply referring to freedom and instead embodies it in the eyes of his supporters.