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PERSPECTIVE: How Gen Z activists are living and protecting the First Amendment
Mar 31, 2022
Today’s kids and young adults have faced an onslaught of societal challenges. But Gen Z activists aren’t giving in to fear. They’re exercising their First Amendment rights to push for ...
PERSPECTIVE: How the Supreme Court could rule on key religious rights questions this term
Mar 24, 2022
The First Amendment’s protection of freedom of religion exists in tension with itself. Government must permit free exercise of religion but cannot endorse specific religious practice, which would ...
PERSPECTIVE: Free speech and press need freedom of information
Mar 17, 2022
It’s Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of open government. Freedom Forum First Amendment specialist Kevin Goldberg explains why freedom of information laws enhance our First Amendment rights to ...
New C-SPAN/Pierrepont Survey: Public Attitudes About the U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 15, 2022
One Week from Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearing: New Poll Shows Strong Public Awareness of Court’s Relevance Plus: Awareness of Live Oral Argument Audio is Aiding Court ...
PERSPECTIVE: HOW the Supreme Court could rule on key free speech questions this term
Mar 10, 2022
Beyond the words we say, free speech can also include expressions like signs and flags. So how much can cities regulate signs? Whose expression is it when flags fly at city hall? The Supreme Court is currently ...
5 things to know about Gen Z and the First Amendment
Mar 3, 2022
Young people exercise their First Amendment rights in new ways in every generation. Today’s youth, Gen Z, have a few things in common with older generations. In other ways, they stand out in the ...
PERSPECTIVE: Why arguments for regulating social media fail the First Amendment test
Feb 24, 2022
Some users who are frustrated with social media moderation – too much or too little – are asking the government to step in. Freedom Forum First Amendment specialist Kevin Goldberg explains ...
Power shift training improves newsroom culture – and coverage
Feb 17, 2022
Remaking newsrooms from the inside out can tackle two problems at once. News leaders who have participated in the Power Shift Project’s Workplace Integrity program report that adopting the curriculum ...
PERSPECTIVE: Unpacking cancel culture — censorship, civil right or something else?
Feb 10, 2022
There’s no shortage of passionate opinions about cancel culture, but there isn’t agreement on what the phenomenon is either, says Freedom Forum Fellow Lata Nott, unpacking how cancel culture ...
