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March 11, 2015
Cristian Farias
The Two Oklahoma Students Expelled for Their Racist Chant Have a Strong Free-Speech Defense
November 10, 2014
Zach Campbell
Spain Is Sending This Basque Activist to Jail for Writing an Op-Ed
May 28, 2014
Margo Schlanger
The Supreme Court Gives a Subtle Boost to Free Speech
A Secret Service ruling isn't the setback it may seem
February 19, 2014
Nilanjana Roy
Indian Intellectuals are Being Bullied by Right-Wing Extremists
A Hindu group sues, a publisher caves, and a nation becomes less free
December 3, 2013
Marc Tracy
France Has Charged Bob Dylan With Breaking the Country's Most Ridiculous Law
June 3, 2013
Tim Wu
The Right to Evade Regulation
How corporations hijacked the First Amendment
April 29, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
The Delete Squad
Google, Twitter, Facebook and the new global battle over the future of free speech
September 20, 1993
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Let Them Talk
Why civil liberties pose no threat to civil rights

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