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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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Given the minimal distinction between the two cultures, Canadians don't generally refer to American things as 'foreign' without significant provocation. It's usually only when a powerful Canadian [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh Texas, like many other states, has an 'anti-SLAPP statute' -- a statute (Tex. Civ. Prac & Remedies Code § 27.001-.011) that provides for expedited review of many [...]

The good news: Both the left and the right have reached consensus that free speech is important. The bad news: 'Free speech' has apparently been redefined to mean 'speech with [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple At a seminar at Harvard's Institute of Politics this past week, Corey Lewandowski issued a defense of the several months that he spent as a paid political [...]

Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO -- At a literary gathering in Cairo, the poem Fatma Naoot chose to read could not have been more relevant. It was about prisons, both physical [...]

Since Barry Goldwater, in accepting the Republicans' 1964 presidential nomination, said, 'Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,' Democrats have been decrying Republican 'extremism.' Actually, although there is [...]