Award-Winning Journalist and Author Isabel Wilkerson Will Receive the 2021 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media on Monday, June 21
Perspective: Dispelling the Myth of a ‘Christian Nation’
By Charles C. Haynes, senior fellow for religious liberty, Freedom Forum.
Perspective: New state anti-protest laws, if upheld, threaten to mute our First Amendment freedoms
By Gene Policinski, Freedom Forum Senior Fellow for the First Amendment
Perspective: White House and press corps should practice transparency, not prior review
By Gene Policinski, Freedom Forum Senior Fellow for the First Amendment A “free press” should be just that: Free to conduct interviews without prior review of quotes or stories by government officials.
Perspective: Facebook’s Trump moment might define social media’s future under the First Amendment
Facebook’s “supreme court” on Wednesday approved the ban that blocked former President Donald J. Trump from using Facebook and Instagram after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol – but said the social media giant should define how long the penalty will last.
Perspective: The verdict is in – but for protest rights, the jury remains ‘out’
The verdict is in. But the jury is still out in so many ways related to First Amendment freedoms.
News: Supreme Court to Tackle a Rare First Amendment Test of Freedom of Association
If you donated money to a controversial nonprofit organization, would you want the government to know about it and possibly make your name and address public?
Perspective: The World Must Urge China to Free Jimmy Lai
The world needs to keep its eye on Jimmy Lai.
Perspective: Baseball Has First Amendment Rights, Too
Major League Baseball (MLB) has officially moved this year’s All-Star festivities from Georgia to Colorado.
Memo to Police: Journalists Have a Duty to Observe, Report – Even Amid Chaos
This column expresses the views of Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment, Freedom Forum. A “watchdog” press can hardly report to the rest of us if it’s not able to watch — or gets arrested and carted off to jail while doing so.