Tag: First Amendment
Why lawsuits against the media may not hurt freedom of the...
Nancy Costello, Michigan State University
Free speech advocates have long believed that suing a news organization threatens free speech....
What public school students are allowed to say on social media...
Scott F. Johnson, Concord Law School
After a high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania dropped a series of F-bombs about...
It can’t happen here – and then it did
Joe Saltzman, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
When Americans think of journalists attacked, arrested or imprisoned while doing their job,...
What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
It has somehow become sort of normal to use the workplace to protest social issues unrelated to the job...
Campus free speech laws being enacted in many states, but some...
Neal H. Hutchens, University of Mississippi
Continuing a recent trend, more states are passing laws that deal with free speech rights on college campuses.
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Rap music and threats of violence: A case for the Supreme...
Clay Calvert, University of Florida
Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize last year and Eminem set a record in 2019 for streams on Spotify. But...
Janus decision extends First Amendment ‘right of silence’
Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University
Forty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state could require nonmembers of a public employee union...
Why the Supreme Court’s ‘gay wedding cake’ ruling won’t resolve religious...
David Mislin, Temple University
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its long-anticipated ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. In a 7-2...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
