Tag: Free speech
Most panhandling laws are unconstitutional since there’s no freedom from speech
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University
Thousands of U.S. cities restrict panhandling in some way. These ordinances limit face-to-face soliciting, including interactions that occur on...
What is the online equivalent of a burning cross?
Jessie Daniels, City University of New York
White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online and off – in both physical...
New legislation may make free speech on campus less free
Neal H. Hutchens, University of Mississippi
Around the country, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech...
What was the protest group Students for a Democratic Society? Five...
Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
Editor’s note: The 2016 election brought student activism back into the spotlight. No student activist organization in U.S. history...
Can Facebook be sued for live-streaming suicides?
Shontavia Johnson, Drake University
In January, two different suicides were streamed using Facebook Live, a service that allows Facebook users to create and broadcast real-time...
Berkeley, Milo Yiannopoulos and the lessons of free speech
Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine and Howard Gillman, University of California, Irvine
Recent events at the University of California, Berkeley reflect the enormous difficulties...
Experts’ roundtable: The future of journalism in Trump’s America
Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, Bloomington ; Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon; Frank Waddell, University of Florida; Glenn Scott, Elon University, and Jennifer Glover Konfrst,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
