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First Amendment
First Amendment news and analysis from The Nation
January 22, 2021
The peaceful protests on Inauguration Day show what happens when social media companies refuse to let white supremacists use them to organize and incite violence.
January 5, 2021
But the British court judgment, which is likely to be appealed, also delivers a body blow to freedom of speech.
December 21, 2020
Like William Penn and John Peter Zenger, the Wikileaks founder is fighting for our freedom.
May 29, 2020
His attack on Twitter is really an attack on the right to criticize the president.
May 14, 2020
Everywhere you look, the president has appointed people who undermine their job’s essential reason for being.
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March 27, 2020
Against the vice cop of the mind.
February 5, 2020
The US Supreme Court decided Citizens United 10 years ago. I’m calling for the end to corporate constitutional rights and political money as free speech.
September 24, 2019
But the US government will still win its suit against the whistle-blower, says the lawyer who represented Daniel Ellsberg.
August 20, 2019
How far-right operatives manufactured the “crisis” of free speech with books, think tanks—and billions of dollars.
July 23, 2019
Stevens was precisely the kind of justice that neither side wants appointed: a pragmatist, skeptical of rigid doctrinal tests.
