Would it be too much to ask the TSA to use its agents to make Americans safer instead of threatening bloggers who publish widely distributed memos that should have been public anyway?
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.15.2009 | World
The alternative Cuban blogosphere continues to propagate itself. It is no longer like the bleak wasteland that displayed -- if anything -- a few pseudonymous pages in April 2007.
The Nation | Ben Wyskida | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
Ben Wyskida The Nation In the late 1980's noted novelist Jose Manuel Prieto was asked to leave Cuba, at odds with the Castro regime and what he calls...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media
Misrepresenting what I said during an appearance on Countdown this week, NewsBusters claims that I'm trying to deny Glenn Beck his "constitutionally protected free speech." Wrong. What I said is that words have tremendous power -- they can inspire and they can incite. There's a reason you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theater. But even though Glenn Beck is shouting "fire" in a crowded, anxious country, I specifically said that the right response to his steady stream of lies, hate, and race-baiting -- all served up with a not-very-subtle undercurrent of violence -- is to put unrelenting pressure on his advertisers and his bosses. Pressure works. CNN dropped Lou Dobbs. I'm actually of two minds when it comes to Beck. Part of me resents spending even a second of my life thinking about him. But part of me recognizes that he's too dangerous to ignore.
Judy Platt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
Your book's been published in the United States for an American audience. Someone who's mentioned in the book doesn't like what you've written and sues you for libel, but he doesn't sue you here, where the book has been published.
Heather Robinson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Mainstream media has helped to cloud perceptions of the true causes of suicide terrorism. They've reinforced the perception that suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism are in some sense arguably justifiable.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
My organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), is proud to join a broad coalition criticizing Yale University's decision to censor the Muhammad cartoons from a book about the cartoons.
HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
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The New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
The Frankfurt Book Fair, which struggled to find a balance between free speech and honoring China as its featured country, dismissed its project manag...
Luis Toro | Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver
What kinds of polls are actually campaign advertisements? A Colorado court is set to rule on the answer.
Russia Today | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The case of an Indian student jailed in the U.S. more than three years ago, is being seen as a major test of America's human rights. A jury found Vik...
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
When lawyers speculate about wrongdoing, as in the Letterman case, and advance claims without factual basis, I wince for all of us who view the practice of law as an honorable and worthy profession.
The New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wanted to know if Congress could ban a "Human Sacrifice Channel" on cable television. Justice Ruth Bader G...
Leslie Harris | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology
In the wake of protests last week at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the police arrested a self-professed anarchist for using Twitter to coordinate communications among G20 summit protesters.
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Publishers, librarians, booksellers, and authors have banded together this summer in rejection of a government claim that there can be exceptions to t...
Newsweek | Krista Gesaman | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
Kittens, brutality, fetish videos, and dogfighting--these aren't the elements of a twisted cable-television show; they're just some of the factors in ...
Eugene Volokh | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
I'm worried that the Executive Branch's endorsement of speech-restrictive "international human rights" norms will affect how the courts interpret the First Amendment.
Harry Moroz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
As the Supreme Court considers expanding corporate personhood, it is worthwhile remembering that corporate America was not handed down to us from above.
Timothy Karr | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media
The ultimate irony of Beck, Dobbs and Rush is that they couch in populist rhetoric a message that is anti-populist, designed to protect the swindle at the core of our media system's failure.
Jim Selman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media
They are a few thousand hard-core individuals intent on destroying possibility and undermining the man that a majority of Americans elected.
New York Times | DOMINICK TAO | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
Since the 1940s, at least on paper, the city has restricted, or banned outright, the placement of billboards along its highways. But because of haphaz...
Bob Kerrey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
When campaign finance legislation levels up rather than limits down political speech, the result is more candidates from diverse backgrounds competing for support. Call it the ''more speech'' solution.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
If history is any teacher, I can think of no industry more deserving of scrutiny and strict government regulation, consistent with their free speech rights, than the tobacco industry.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
We all hate spam, but censors, especially ones on college campuses, are remarkably good at bundling protected speech with speech that does not enjoy constitutional protection.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
The Hindley case, the university's bungled decision to close down the Rose Art Museum, and various other abuses of student and faculty rights have continued to embarrass Brandeis University.
Henry Blodget | Posted 01.04.2010 | Media