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Freedom of Speech
September 11, 2024
Paige Oamek
Trump Issues Frightening Threat After Disastrous Debate Performance
The entire media—and anyone who cares about free speech—should consider this a warning of what could happen in a second Trump term.
May 6, 2024
Ben Metzner
Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok
It’s not about national security, after all.
January 9, 2024
Tori Otten
Gee, Guess What Twitter Just Did to Accounts Critical of Elon Musk?
Elon Musk is at it again.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.
April 15, 2021
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Could Get Dragged Into the Cancel Culture Wars
Does the First Amendment confer a right never to face public criticism? No, but the high court may be forced to settle the matter anew.
April 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
How a Bunch of Revolutionary War Reenactors Got Caught Up in Facebook’
“It’s people in 1776 in wool clothes with muskets that it takes a minute to load and shoot.”
November 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
,
Nick Martin
,
Katie McDonough
,
J.C. Pan
The Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.
November 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump wants to revoke the citizenship of flag-burners. What?
November 28, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
When it comes to Professor Watchlist, timing is everything.
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