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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: On campus speech: Thanks, Mr. President — but no thanks

    At first hearing, President Trump’s recent announcement of a planned presidential order to mandate free speech ... Read more

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Inside the First Amendment: Student journalism is more needed than ever

  In more communities today than ever, student publications are doing double-duty — reporting news of schools and ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Time to stand up for journalists, for pursuit of truth

  Unlike most of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” designees since 1927, we can be certain none ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: We should protest proposed restrictions on White House protests

  The White House. To the world, it’s the image of the United States. To Americans, it’s the ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Whereabouts of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi should concern us all

  Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is missing — and the world does not know if he is alive or ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: An ongoing outrage, a tragedy — and a puzzling farce

  The reports came like thunderbolts this week: Another journalist beaten to death in Mexico. Two journalists killed ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Hannity Hassle – let’s apply ‘the five W’s and how’

  If the burning national question of the moment is whether Fox News Channel star Sean Hannity is ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: The White House is wrong. A free press is ‘the people’

An angry U.S. president feels hounded by the news media and is infuriated and discouraged with the intense ... Read more

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School walkouts in wake of ‘Parkland’ — protected by First Amendment or not?

The national walkouts that students are organizing to call for new gun control legislation are commendable examples of ... Read more

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INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: We’re a big part of the fix for ‘junk news’

Let’s stop talking so much about “fake news.” Not that we should ever cease identifying, talking about or ... Read more