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February 13, 2017
America’s Favorite Syrian Militia Rules With an Iron Fist
The Kurdish YPG recruits fighters at gunpoint, assassinates political opponents, and suppresses the media.
Roy Gutman
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January 11, 2017
When Trump Pits Journalists Against Each Other, He’s Won
In a rambling press conference, he offered lame answers on his business conflicts of interest and alleged Russian hacking.
Joan Walsh
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December 13, 2016
Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory
A shadowy new Professor Watchlist has revived the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. We must fight back.
Erik Loomis
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December 7, 2016
Take a Pledge to Defend the First Amendment From the Trump Administration
The president-elect has been alarmingly hostile to the press and free-speech rights.
NationAction
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June 14, 2016
Is Removing Climate Skepticism From Textbooks Censorship?
The public-school board in Portland, Oregon, tried to broaden the district’s climate-change curriculum. Now it’s being accused of suppressing debate.
Zoë Carpenter
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February 15, 2016
NSA: National Security, Art
Perhaps what’s most striking about “Astro Noise” and “Agitprop!” are the ingenuity and openness of the institutions hosting the shows.
Alina Cohen
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July 27, 2015
A Traitor Who Writes
Chinese novelist Yan Lianke on censorship and the dream of getting published without writing drivel.
Yan Lianke
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July 2, 2015
This Professor Was Fired for Saying ‘Fuck No’ in Class
The misuse of sexual-harassment policies by pusillanimous college administrators is creating a campus panic.
Michelle Goldberg
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April 15, 2015
The New Thought Police
Why are campus administrators invoking civility to silence critical speech?
Joan W. Scott
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April 13, 2015
Will Ukraine’s New Anti-Communist Law Usher in a Free-Speech Dark Age?
The law, still to be signed by the president, is more about silencing the left than anything else.
Alec Luhn