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Topic: Freedom of Speech

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
An Oklahoma student is decrying her failing grade on a reflection essay for psychology course. Her instructors say it was well-deserved not for her religious views but for her lack of empirical evidence, not following directions and a poorly written assignment. (Pawel Kacperek / Getty Images)

Student cries bad grade is faith attack

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

America's slow-motion coup speeds up

Andrew O'Hehir
Protestors gather in Boston, Massachusetts during hearings for Harvard University's lawsuit against the Trump administration. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Democracy at stake in Harvard vs. Trump

Sabrina Haake
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A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

How theater can save democracy

Bernd Reiter
We the People preamble to the US Constitution on top of a antique typewriter (Getty Images/mj0007)

Journalists as heroes: I still believe

Kirk Swearingen
Julian Assange (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Now Trump gets to use the Espionage Act

Jesselyn Radack
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump thanks supporters after speaking at a Get Out The Vote rally at Winthrop University on February 23, 2024 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

We need a Trump gag order, for real

Kirk Swearingen
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A protester seen with a placard expressing her opinion at the Royal Courts of Justice. U.S wins appeal to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the UK. (Thomas Krych/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden's hypocrisy on Julian Assange

Ben Cohen
Elon Musk and Kathy Griffin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Kathy Griffin Twitter trolls Elon Musk

Joy Saha
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis goes after thoughtcrime

Jon Skolnik
Bill Barr and Merrick Garland (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Save democracy: Start with press freedom

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
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Social media restricted speech and cancel culture censorship concept (Getty Images)

Don't be fooled by "cancel culture"

Chris Hedges
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on November 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

It ain't Democrats "censoring" Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee at a hearing on 'Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DeVos nixes positive view of Islam

Igor Derysh
Mo Brooks and Bret Stephens (Twitter/AP/Brynn Anderson)

Right's free-speech hypocrisy

Sophia Tesfaye
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ilhan Omar pushes boycott resolution

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Jim Acosta (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Talking to "The Enemy of the People"

Andrew O'Hehir
A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest outside the US Embassy in London, November 9, 2016. (Getty/Ben Stansall)

Trump, the "lying press" and the Nazis

Richard E. Frankel
A man holds a poster with the slogan '#FREEDENIZ' during a protest in front of the Turkish embassy in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Demonstrators protest against the police custody of Deniz Yucel, a correspondent in Turkey for the German daily newspaper 'Welt'. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Violence against journalists climbs

Randy Covington - The Conversation
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William Barr; Julian Assange; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

Yes, it's time to impeach: But why?

Andrew O'Hehir
US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Nonprofit sues DeVos over free speech

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Students gather with signs for a Climate Strike rally on the campus of Columbia University, Friday March 15, 2019, in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Right's assault on campus free speech

Sophia Tesfaye
Ben Shapiro (Getty/Mark Ralston)

How to have an argument with Ben Shapiro

Matthew Rozsa
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