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This column expresses the views of Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment, Freedom Forum. Student journalists should be able to count on the First Amendment as much as their professional counterparts — and not just because their work provides information along with a good learning experience.

This column expresses the views of Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment, Freedom Forum. There may be no two personalities more distant and yet more prominent in their own ways in the 20th century world of free speech than conservative talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh and the owner of San Francisco’s famed City Lights […]

This column expresses the views of Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment, Freedom Forum. Whether you were a fan or a critic of Rush Limbaugh – and there were millions of both – the First Amendment was his touchstone through a nearly four-decade career as conservatism’s most prominent media voice.

A recent Supreme Court ruling for three Muslim men placed on the federal no-fly list for refusing an FBI request to spy on their religious community marks an important development in religious liberty law and our national conversation on religious freedom.

This column expresses the views of Elizabeth Dickson, director of development, Freedom Forum. Two weeks after a riotous mob disputed the 2020 election results by storming the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden stood on the same ground and called on Americans to avoid “raging fire” politics and come together as a nation.

This column expresses the views of Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment, Freedom Forum. We should revisit again and again the stirring call during President Joe Biden’s inauguration to put the power and meaning of our First Amendment freedoms at center stage in the 21st century.

Violence, no matter the motive, is not First Amendment protest – period.