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High-School Student Activists Have More Rights Than You Might Think High-School Student Activists Have More Rights Than You Might Think

Public school teachers and administrators across the country think they have more power than they actually do—and students need to know.

Oct 6, 2017 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

Colin Kaepernick

Fearlessly Speaking Truth to Power Fearlessly Speaking Truth to Power

The examples of Manning and Kaepernick show some of America’s most powerful institutions treating the truth as an inconvenience or, worse, an enemy to defeat.

Sep 26, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Why Berkeley’s Battle Against White Supremacy Is Not About Free Speech Why Berkeley’s Battle Against White Supremacy Is Not About Free Speech

The alt-right’s First Amendment narratives just give cover to campaigns of intimidation.

Sep 8, 2017 / Meleiza Figueroa and David Palumbo-Liu

Tom Price refuses to talk to Dan Heyman

A Journalist Has Been Arrested for Questioning HHS Secretary Tom Price A Journalist Has Been Arrested for Questioning HHS Secretary Tom Price

A West Virginia reporter was treated as “an enemy of the people” for doing his job.

May 11, 2017 / John Nichols

The Deeper Lessons of the Incident at Middlebury

The Deeper Lessons of the Incident at Middlebury The Deeper Lessons of the Incident at Middlebury

The Manichean model of framing political conflicts polarizes public life, unravels the bonds of common citizenship, and doesn’t create a broad majority base for significa...

Mar 17, 2017 / StudentNation / Harry C. Boyte

nikki haley confirmation

Demand That Trump Appointees and Allies Answer the Question: Will You Defend Freedom of the Press? Demand That Trump Appointees and Allies Answer the Question: Will You Defend Freedom of the Press?

Every member of the Trump team should be pressed on the question of whether they will respect the First Amendment to the Constitution they have sworn to uphold.

Mar 7, 2017 / John Nichols

Nat Hentoff

A Memorial for Nat Hentoff A Memorial for Nat Hentoff

The journalist’s spirit of freewheeling dispute was very much in evidence.

Mar 3, 2017 / Leslie Savan

LAX Trump protesters

Donald Trump’s #MuslimBan Is Indisputably Un-American Donald Trump’s #MuslimBan Is Indisputably Un-American

Thomas Paine called this country into being as “an asylum for mankind”—not a discriminatory state imposing religious tests on refugees.

Jan 30, 2017 / John Nichols

How to Do Journalism in Trump’s America

How to Do Journalism in Trump’s America How to Do Journalism in Trump’s America

To understand what’s driving his supporters, editors need to create a series of new beats.

Jan 18, 2017 / Feature / Michael Massing

Donald Trump

Media, Don’t Play Trump’s Game of Divide and Conquer Media, Don’t Play Trump’s Game of Divide and Conquer

Journalists should remember that we all face a common threat from an administration that is hostile to the very notion of freedom of the press.

Jan 17, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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