News & Commentary about Free Speech

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Feb 17, 2017

Where Protests Flourish, Anti-Protest Bills Follow

Ben Eaton, Mary Schaeffer, Esther Calhoun, and Ellis Long (from left to right)

Feb 9, 2017

Small-Town Activists Stand Up to a Coal Ash Landfill and Win a Major Victory for Free Speech

Jan 25, 2017

Government Employees Get to Have Opinions, Too

Jan 19, 2017

In First of Many, ACLU FOIA Request Seeks Information About the New President’s Conflicts of Interests

Jan 18, 2017

Instead of Certain Death, Chelsea Manning Now Has a Chance at Life

Jan 18, 2017

The Federal Trademark Office Won’t Protect Our Band’s Name, The Slants, Because It Says the Name Is Racist. We’re All Asian-American, By the Way.

Jan 17, 2017

President Obama's Commutation of Chelsea Manning's Sentence Most Likely Saved Her Life

Police on motorcycles in front of protesters

Jan 17, 2017

Why Are DC Police Keeping Their Body Cameras Off During Inauguration and the Women’s March?

Jan 11, 2017

Dissent Is Patriotic. It’s Also a Powerful Antidote to Propaganda.

Jan 11, 2017

Why President Obama Should Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence