Two of the least-known freedoms protected by the First Amendment — the rights of assembly and petition — are being tested in today’s rancorous, confrontational social atmospherics.
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Perspective: Growing threats to Afghan journalists show why press freedom matters
Journalists are our eyes and ears in places the rest of the world can’t —or won’t — go. Sometimes in places that take access, like the White House or professional locker rooms. Other times, in places that take extreme bravery, like war zones.
Perspective: Some First Amendment Back-to-School Advice
What can public school students say and do when it comes to expressing themselves in school this year?
Perspective: Can the First Amendment Protect Educators from Being Fired for Teaching About Race?
Officials in more than 25 states have in the past year introduced or enacted measures to penalize the teaching of racial issues in ways that might be divisive in public schools.
Perspective: College students, First Amendment values are key to your university experience
Welcome back to school, college students. Embracing your First Amendment freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition while you’re there will enhance:
Perspective: Public schools need constitutional and religious literacy
When the starting tackle at McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio, showed up at practice one Monday this May, he didn’t realize how bad his week was about to get.
Perspective: Protect voting like we protect free speech
The First Amendment protects many activities related to voting — expressing political views near polling stations, signing petitions to put initiatives on a ballot, receiving news coverage on the various candidates. But it stops short of protecting voting itself. The right to express ourselves freely is far more protected under the law than the right […]
Perspective: 5 U.S. Olympic athletes who flexed their First Amendment muscles
Ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee reviewed and loosened its rules about protest on the field of play, but reiterated restrictions on medal podium activism, saying: Don’t.
Perspective: Supreme Court sides with First Amendment freedoms, but questions linger
Significant First Amendment cases involving religion, student speech, assembly and press rights were at the top of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the just-finished 2020-21 term.
Perspective: Assaults on local reporters are a slap in the face of our right to know
When news is overwhelming — as it has been this past year — more people turn to local news than almost any other source.