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Don Lemon makes a statement outside of federal court in Los Angeles following his arrest on charges related to covering an ICE protest in Minneapolis. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Don Lemon's arrest is a MAGA misfire

Sophia Tesfaye
Fox News saw this week's ruling as a win. Rival right-leaning news outlet Newsmax is appealing. (anouchka / Getty Images)

Fox News shrugs at FBI raid of reporter

Sophia Tesfaye
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers remarks on Dec. 8, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hegseth's press purge is now complete

Sabrina Haake
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

The press is crumbling under Trump

Brian Karem
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting on Oct. 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Hegseth’s press crackdown is backfiring

Sophia Tesfaye
Former President Donald Trump and moderator Kristen Welker appear in a pre taped interview on “Meet the Press” at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, in Bedminster, NJ, Sep. 13, 2023. (William B. Plowman/NBC)

Saved by our fourth branch of government

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's DOJ spied on Post reporters

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Maria Ressa, CEO and editor of Philippine news website Rappler (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Maria Ressa convicted of cyber libel

Patrick Frater - Variety
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Laurence Tribe and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump suing The New York Times

Matthew Rozsa
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the New Hampshire state Democratic Party convention, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, in Manchester, NH. (Getty Stock/ AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Bernie against whistleblower prosecution

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Jim Acosta (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Talking to "The Enemy of the People"

Andrew O'Hehir
Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

EU needs to lead on press protection

Frank Vogl - The Globalist
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Donald Trump; Thomas Jefferson (AP/Getty/Salon)

Presidents and Americans on a free press

Jill Darling, Robert Shrum - The Conversation
(Getty Images/Salon)

"We're not fake news" isn't enough

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; John Adams (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Taking America back — to 1798

Jeff Biggers
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump's attacks on press aren't funny

Heather Digby Parton
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(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Petraeus rebuts Trump White House

Taylor Link
(AP/Evan Vucci)

So can we call him a fascist now?

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump's biggest threat to the press yet

Charlie May
White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Spicer answered questions about immigration, homeland security and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

First Amendment in danger

Bernard Weisberger - BillMoyers.com
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Donald Trump (Getty/Mark Wallheiser)

The Bully bested the bar

Brendan Gauthier

Brendan Gauthier
Donald Trump, Mike Pence (AP/David Furst/Michael Conroy/Photo montage by Salon)

Ben Norton
In this Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 file photo, people stand near a cloud of tear gas in Ferguson, Mo. during protests for the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer. The U.S. government agreed to a police request to shut down several miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, even though authorities said their purpose was to keep media helicopters away during protests in August, according to recordings of air traffic control conversations obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Sarah Gray
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