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At the 2025 Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance chided Europeans on limiting free speech. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

JD Vance doesn't believe in free speech

Austin Sarat, Thomas Dumm
Most journalists and press organizations are rallying around Don Lemon, following his arrest for his supposed involvement in a protest in Minneapolis this week. With some conservative pundits support his arrest, the debate over press freedom is back in the conversation. (Kevin Mazur / Getty Images)

Press freedom under fire after arrest

CK Smith
Journalist Don Lemon was arrested and charged with civil rights violations because he was reporting on a protest at a church in Minneapolis. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Lemon pledges to fight after his arrest

CK Smith
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is remaking America — as Russia

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Israeli American Council National Summit at the Washington Hilton on September 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How Trump redefined antisemitism

Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

The Trump memo aimed at gagging dissent

Blaise Malley
Police Car Emergency Services (Getty Images/JasonDoiy)

Man arrested for meme has charge dropped

Blaise Malley
Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Action, speaks during a meeting on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Olivier Touron/Getty Images)

Efforts to avenge Kirk fall apart

Russell Payne
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a summit on transforming mental health treatment to combat homelessness, violence and substance abuse at the White House. ((Photo by BrendanPhoto by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Trump’s new “American Midnight"

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's diplomacy by insult

Brian Karem
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ( Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Kimmel’s return is a Project 2025 defeat

Sophia Tesfaye
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. and Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The FCC's phony right-wing critics

Charles R. Davis
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Students walk across the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on November 6, 2023. (MEGAN JELINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP "free speech" silences Ohio students

Tatyana Tandanpolie
No Kings demonstration in Chicago, June 14, 2025. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

America's slow-motion coup speeds up

Andrew O'Hehir
President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sept. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))

All Trump requires is total fealty

Brian Karem
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 21, 2025. (John McDonnell/Getty Images))

Brendan Carr betrays free speech

Austin Sarat
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Tucker Carlson speaks at his Live Tour at the Desert Diamond Arena on October 31, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Carlson warns against speech crackdowns

Garrett Owen
Jimmy Kimmel attends the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Kimmel falls victim to Trump's media war

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Pam Bondi became MAGA’s patsy

Sophia Tesfaye
FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 16, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Kash Patel's true job is content creator

Amanda Marcotte
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Airlines, schools, and networks are taking action against employees with controversial social media posts. Free speech has entered the debate between private entities and public personal rights. (Robert Alexander / Getty Images)

Firings over Kirk death spark debate

CK Smith
President Trump attended the men's finals of the US Open in New York on Sunday. He presence was met with mixed reactions, much like other major sporting events he's attend in the last decade. Most people complained about the delay due to long security lines. (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images)

USTA faces heat after muting Trump boos

CK Smith
Demonstrators gather outside United States Federal Court House in New York City to show support for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and demand his immediate release from ICE detention. New York, U.S., March 12, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Khalil describes missing birth of son

Alex Galbraith
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks during a press conference at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan on October 29, 2019 in New York City. Gabbard called for the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI declassify and release 9/11 investigative documents that she claims would implicate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How Tulsi became Trump's biggest weapon

Amanda Marcotte
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