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Stephanie A. MartinThe Conversation |
It’s difficult to measure what is lost when an opinion is never voiced and impossible to catalogue the arguments that never form because a speaker...
When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent...
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives by making dissenters...
Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a...
Media coverage of the Epstein files has its priorities entirely backwards
Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a...
When websites and email systems become partisan platforms, the line blurs between state and party, diluting public trust in the idea of impartial...
The First Amendment is not just about the right to speak without fear of jail. It’s also about ensuring that government cannot punish speech...
Charlie Kirk and his organization connected students and the GOP in new and effective ways. But the slain conservative spread misinformation and...
A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered. It’s being targeted...
Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist rhetoric. Those contributions...