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Byline: ROBERT ROTBERG Founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School's program on intrastate conflict. His latest books are Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness and Overcoming the Oppressors. In the [...]

Byline: Sophia Nguyen 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline,' Andreas Malm's 2021 book calling for a more radical flank of the climate movement, does not, in fact, tell you how [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova, Special to USA TODAY Oleg Kashintsev, a retired police officer in Russia, may spend eight years in prison. His crime? Spreading fake news, according to Russian authorities [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Over the past two weeks, a group of writers chosen by Elon Musk to review Twitter's previously confidential internal messages has portrayed a handful of unaccountable 'trust [...]

Byline: Tim Craig FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A federal judge on Thursday blocked Florida from enforcing a new state law that limits how private companies teach diversity and inclusion in [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan As the would-be new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk has been touting his passion for free speech over the past week. He's also been showing his confusion, [...]

Free speech, open-source algorithms -- and an edit button: The world's richest person will soon help steer the social media platform where he has a huge following. Elon Musk, the [...]

The same information revolution that brought us Netflix, podcasts and the knowledge of the world in our smartphone-gripping hands has also undermined American democracy. There can be no doubt that [...]

Byline: Christopher Knaus The Coalition's planned crackdown on charities and not-for-profits threatens free speech, gives the regulator overly broad powers, and should be scrapped, a Liberal-chaired parliamentary committee has found. [...]

Byline: Richard Adams, Education editor Oxbridge student groups are to be exempt from the legal restrictions imposed by the government's new free speech legislation, leading to accusations of 'ridiculous' double [...]

Byline: Spencer S. Hsu WASHINGTON - Former president Donald Trump's claim that the First Amendment shields his conduct leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is legally 'spurious' and [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Rachel Lerman Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday filed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter, escalating his long-running battle with the companies following their suspensions [...]

First, they came for the protestors, then they came for the elected democrats, and now it is the turn of journalists. Step by step, the long arm of the national [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by the office of California Rep. J. Luis Correa: Today, Congressman Lou Correa (CA-46) released the following statement applauding the House passage [...]

Byline: Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor The UK could scrap EU-style privacy laws in the wake of the Duchess of Sussex's legal victory over the Mail on Sunday, Dominic Raab [...]

Byline: Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor The UK could scrap EU-style privacy laws in the wake of the Duchess of Sussex's legal victory over the Mail on Sunday, Dominic Raab [...]

Byline: Richard Adams Education editor A controversial bill forcing universities in England to promote free speech has been attacked by freedom of expression campaigners, who say the legislation is more [...]

Byline: MENAKA RAMAN-WILMS, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead Members of Parliament on the Canadian Heritage committee are suspending their line-by-line review of Bill C-10, which updates the Broadcasting Act, in order [...]

Byline: Richard Adams and Rachel Hall The leading research universities in the UK have urged the government to be 'proportionate' in its planned legislation to promote free speech on campus, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by the Institute for Free Speech (IFS): By IFS Staff Washington, DC -- The Institute for Free Speech released the following statement [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Utah Senator Mike Lee: -- Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) with the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today demanded the Department [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis: Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and all Republican Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded that [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Louisiana Senator John Kennedy: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and nine other senators in demanding that the [...]

Byline: Jonathan Turley With the acquittal of former President Donald Trump in the Senate, many are calling for criminal charges for everything from incitement to racketeering to bank fraud. Legal [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the summer of 1964, not long after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, a Ku Klux Klan member named Clarence Brandenburg [...]

Byline: Arielle Kass AJC COUNTY BY COUNTY GWINNETT Supporters of Alice OLenick derided calls for Gwinnetts Republican election board chair to resign as an example of cancel culture and limits [...]

Byline: Karla L. Miller After last week's column on employers taking action to discipline, terminate and otherwise distance themselves from anyone involved in the Jan. 6 pro-Trump attack on the [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's banishment from social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, a handful of world leaders have expressed alarm over the power [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE Lead I used to think that all that was required for freedom of speech to flourish was the absence of restraint: legal restraints, certainly, but also the [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE, Staff Lead You say you're worried about the attempted violent overthrow of the government of the United States by unhinged followers of Donald Trump, or the further [...]

LANSING, MI -- The following information was released by the Michigan House of Representatives, the Republicans: State Rep. John Reilly today announced he will introduce legislation to protect the constitutional [...]

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The following information was released by the Institute for Free Speech (IFS): By IFS Staff Sweeping legislation that would rewrite federal laws governing political speech and association, [...]

Media organisations and groups yesterday asked the House of Representatives to drop all press regulations bills before it, arguing that clauses contained in them discourage freedom of speech and press [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republicans: Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today [...]

Byline: RICHARD STURSBERG, KEVIN CHAN Lead Richard Stursberg is the author of The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age. Kevin Chan is the Canadian policy director [...]

The executives, who have now testified several times in recent years, will most likely face some new questions about how they handled the election. WASHINGTON -- Mark Zuckerberg, the chief [...]

The conservative justice's pointed remarks, which he made in a speech to the Federalist Society, reflected thoughts he has expressed in his opinions. WASHINGTON -- In an unusually caustic and [...]

Tanzania, July 29 -- Ankara. Turkey's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial bill which would give the government greater control of social media, the official Anadolu news agency reported. Under [...]

Byline: Greg Bluestein and Tia Mitchell It was a moment that both humiliated and galvanized Nikema Williams. On a dreary November 2018 morning, the state senator arrived at the state [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place laws in Chicago and Pennsylvania that restrict antiabortion protesters who gather near the entrances of clinics and [...]

Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING -- Lead BEIJING The last British governor of Hong Kong criticized the Chinese government on Friday over proposed national security legislation, calling it part of an [...]