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Topic: Press Freedom

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
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
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How Orbán inspired Trump's media assault

Heather Digby Parton
Federal agents on an armored vehicle, Los Angeles, July 7, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

American democracy is crashing out

Russell Payne
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The CBS logo is seen at the CBS Building, headquarters of the CBS Corporation, in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Too corporate to fight for a free press

Sophia Tesfaye
The hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime" (MSNBC)

MSNBC's "Saturday night dinner party"

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald J. Trump speaks while Small Business Administration Linda McMahon listens on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

When facts become seditious

Brian Karem
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump attend the 79th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Hilton Midtown in New York, October 17, 2024. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

No time for "nerd prom." Ditch the WHCD

Brian Karem
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos attends the inauguration of Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson - Pool/Getty Images)

What's behind the big media divide?

Clayton Weimers
Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

FCC threatens outlet over ICE reporting

Griffin Eckstein
Julian Assange (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Now Trump gets to use the Espionage Act

Jesselyn Radack
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) departs the Senate Chamber following a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

How Congress crushed free speech in 2024

Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff
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Catherine Herridge and Tim Burke in front of a Julian Assange poster (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netlix)

The quiet war on press freedom

Kathleen McClellan, Jesselyn Radack
US President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on his way to Marine One on the South Lawn as he departs the White House on February 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden is traveling to multiple cities in California for a three-day fundraising swing. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump wants to jail reporters

Brian Karem
Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dominion v. Fox News: Murdoch's end?

Rae Hodge
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
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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange leaves Southwark Crown Court in a security van after being sentenced on May 1, 2019 in London, England. (Getty/Jack Taylor)

Julian Assange and the puppet-masters

Chris Hedges
Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty Images/Jack Taylor)

Why PEN America betrayed Assange

Chris Hedges
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange prepares to speak from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy where he continues to seek asylum following an extradition request from Sweden in 2012, on February 5, 2016 in London, England. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

The execution of Julian Assange

Chris Hedges
Protesters holding placards demanding Julian Assange is freed march, during a protest ahead of Julian Assange's extradition appeal on October 23, 2021 in London, England. Protesters marched from the BBC to the High Court, demanding that Julian Assange is not extradited to the USA. The Final appeal hearing is on October 27. (Martin Pope/Getty Images)

Assange: The fight for press freedom

Chris Hedges
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Supporters gather outside as the High Court hears a U.S. appeal in the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, at Royal Courts of Justice, Chancery Lane, London, Aug. 11, 2021. (Ming Yeung/Getty Images)

After CIA plot, will Assange be freed?

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Julian Assange (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

The reality of the war against Wikileaks

Chris Hedges
A local news team broadcasts outside the Hennepin County Government Center on April 8, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Media freedom led to Chauvin conviction

Michael J. Socolow - The Conversation
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange looks out from inside a prison van with red windows as he arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice on December 16, 2010 in London, England. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Stand up for Julian Assange

Roger Waters
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