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August 23, 2017
Sarah Jones
How Donald Trump Poisons Free Speech
In the wake of Charlottesville, the ACLU shifted its longstanding position on the issue. In Trump’s America, that may have been inevitable.
June 27, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
The Supreme Court’s Incredible Privileging of Religion
In obliging the state to directly aid Trinity Lutheran and other churches, the Court is allowing the religious right to have their cake and eat it, too.
June 26, 2017
Sarah Jones
Secularism had a bad day at the Supreme Court.
May 5, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
The Religious Right Is Starting to Get Its Money’s Worth
Donald Trump’s newest executive order opens the door to greater religious influence over public life.
April 18, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Neil Gorsuch Is Poised to Swing a Landmark Church-State Case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could tip the balance of power towards religion over secularism.
December 2, 2016
Sarah Jones
The separation of church and state may be another casualty of the Trump administration.
November 28, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
When it comes to Professor Watchlist, timing is everything.
March 11, 2015
Cristian Farias
The Two Oklahoma Students Expelled for Their Racist Chant Have a Strong Free-Speech Defense
February 25, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Do the New "Turn the Gays Away" Bills Stand Up to the Constitution?
December 3, 2013
Marc Tracy
France Has Charged Bob Dylan With Breaking the Country's Most Ridiculous Law
June 3, 2013
Tim Wu
The Right to Evade Regulation
How corporations hijacked the First Amendment
June 3, 2013
Peter Jukes
What News Corp's Hacking Scandal Has to Do with James Rosen's Phone Records
March 1, 2013
Yochai Benkler
The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
August 2, 2012
Emily Witt
GOP String Divas
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