Search

Byline: Sydney Mook Apr. 1A bill that would add campus free speech rights to North Dakota law passed the state Senate after a lengthy floor debate on Thursday, April 1. [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin This week, the South Korean parliament passed a law criminalizing the practice of floating balloons with anti-regime leaflets, cultural items and cash into North Korea. The move [...]

Byline: Sydney Mook April 08-- Apr. 8--BISMARCK -- The North Dakota House voted Monday in favor of a bill that directs the State Board of Higher Education and its institutions [...]

Byline: Sydney MookFeb. 14--An amended version of a campus free speech bill passed in the North Dakota Senate Thursday afternoon.Senate Bill 2320, which was introduced by Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand [...]

Byline: Sydney MookFeb. 08--A Senate bill that would strengthen language around free speech on North Dakota college campuses has student leaders at UND questioning what the law would look like [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott Vice President Pence on Thursday criticized some NBA players and corporate sponsors for not speaking out against abuses committed by the Chinese government -- especially from police [...]

Byline: Editorial Board MARK ZUCKERBERG says he is worried about an erosion of truth. He doesn't believe pulling back on expression in times of tension is the right road for [...]

Byline: Megan McArdle There aren't enough synonyms for 'cowardly' to capture the craven pusillanimity of America's corporate capitalists who have abjectly prostrated themselves before Chinese government censors. Those spineless weaklings [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin When the crown prince of Bahrain visited the Oval Office on Monday, President Trump praised the Gulf leader for his country's purchase of American military equipment, but [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Last May, I warned against the Trudeau administration's tightening of Canada's already draconian campaign speech laws, which require anyone spending a relatively modest amount of money on [...]

Byline: Lee C. Bollinger The FBI has stepped up its scrutiny of research practices at college and university campuses -- including mine. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies determined to thwart [...]

Byline: Dan Keating;Brittany Renee Mayes;Kevin Schaul From the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, the Supreme Court reversed its own positions in ways that dramatically reshaped the country on civil rights, freedom [...]

Byline: Editorial Board HONG KONG, at one time a citadel of free speech and rule of law, is gradually being sucked into China's ruling system, which respects neither. This is [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Ctrl + N Too broad. And too vague. Those are the warnings from the tech industry about the United Kingdom's new proposal to penalize Silicon Valley giants [...]

Byline: Editorial Board SINGAPORE IS fighting fake news -- or is it fighting free speech? The line between the two is thin, and the island nation's proposed rules for regulation [...]

Byline: Caroline Mala Corbin Surrounded by conservative student activists who claim to have been stifled by liberal thought police, President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order addressing free speech [...]

Byline: Christopher B. Daly One hundred years ago today, the Supreme Court weighed in for one of the first times in history on the meaning of the First Amendment, deciding [...]

Byline: Samantha SchmidtA federal magistrate judge this week recommended that a ban on conversion therapy in Tampa be partially blocked, arguing it violates therapists' free-speech rights under the First Amendment.A [...]

March 01--Is it too much to ask for some consistency from time to time? The Janus vs. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees case now under deliberation by [...]

Byline: Steve Lash ANNAPOLIS Legislation to expand Marylands law against cyberbullying of youngsters drew praise Tuesday from the mother of a child driven to suicide but scorn from a First [...]

Byline: Nico Savidge May 31--The Assembly's higher education committee passed an amended version of a Republican-backed campus speech bill Tuesday that requires University of Wisconsin System institutions to punish students [...]

Byline: Andrew Haffner April 04--BISMARCK -- A pair of North Dakota bills connected to higher education are winding to a close in the ongoing legislative session. The two proposals -- [...]

Byline: Erik Voeten Ireland's voters have just voted to remove a long-standing blasphemy law from their constitution. Just two days before, the European Court of Human Rights upheld an Austrian [...]

Byline: Editorial Board THE NATIONAL Park Service has floated the idea of whether it should charge fees to groups that hold protests on the Mall. The reason cited by officials [...]

Byline: Dana Milbank 'Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.' --First [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kusnetz This story is in partnership with InsideClimate News , a nonprofit, independent news outlet that covers climate, energy and the environment. A new oil pipeline was looming [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin The Post reports: No matter how many times press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who regularly misrepresents facts and the law, says a nondisclosure agreement is common, to [...]

Byline: Tony Romm;Elizabeth Dwoskin;Eli Rosenberg SAN FRANCISCO -- Left-leaning political activists accused Facebook of censorship when the social media giant removed an event listing this week that it said was [...]

Byline: Editorial Board WHEN CHINESE poet and artist Liu Xia arrived in Helsinki on Tuesday en route to a new life in Berlin, she spread her arms wide in a [...]

OSCE urges Ukrainian MPs to revise text of bill allowing to block websites KYIV. July 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) - OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir has raised concerns [...]

The Supreme Court is especially admirable when correcting especially deplorable prior decisions, as with the 1954 school desegregation decision rejecting an 1896 decision's 'separate but equal' doctrine. It did so [...]

Armenia's May 1 elections will be held in accordance with law -parliamentary speaker promises to French ambassador YEREVAN. April 27 (Interfax) - The Armenian parliament's speaker Ara Babloyan met with [...]

The Streisand effect is one of the curious byproducts of the Internet age. Named for the singer -- who tried to suppress a photograph of her Malibu mansion, only to [...]

Byline: Rick Noack BERLIN -- When 32-year-old German teacher and academic book author Bahar Aslan took to Twitter last week to accuse authorities of not doing enough to investigate an [...]

Byline: Geoffrey R. Stone 'Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.' So says the First Amendment. But what does this mean? Does [...]

Byline: Callum Borchers Peter Thiel got the ultimate revenge against a news outlet that crossed him, bankrupting Gawker through a massive lawsuit earlier this year. But even Thiel, a Donald [...]

Byline: David Nakamura BEIJING -- On the eve of President Trump's first visit to China's capital, his favorite social media platform, Twitter, doubled its character limit for tweets to 280, [...]

Byline: Jonathan A. Greenblatt;Stuart Eizenstat Bipartisan legislation is making its way through Congress that would bar Americans from joining in boycotts by international organizations against companies doing business in Israel. [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh Utah law bans establishments licensed to sell alcohol from showing films that depict any 'act or simulated [sexual] act' (or that depict any 'person dispaly[ing] the genitals [...]

Byline: Jena McGregor The memo that resulted in the firing Monday of its author, a Google engineer, has already stirred up fiery debate about gender stereotyping, corporate diversity efforts and [...]

Byline: Tracy Jan;Elizabeth Dwoskin Francie Latour was picking out produce in a suburban Boston grocery store when a white man leaned toward her two young sons and, just loudly enough [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh From Nassau County, N.Y. Legislator Howard J. Kopel: Nassau County Attorney Carnell Foskey has indeed been quoted by Newsday (Robert Brodsky) as 'threatening to take 'appropriate legal [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh [Note the UPDATE at the end of this post, which discusses an alternative reading of the bill, a reading that still poses a First Amendment problem, though [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh From today's decision in Fields v. City of Philadelphia (reversing a trial court decision that I blogged about and criticized last year): Sounds generally quite right to [...]

Byline: David Post A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Packingham v. North Carolina , holding 8-0 that a North Carolina law prohibiting previously convicted sex [...]