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Abusive police officers evade punishment through an array of legal roadblocks to accountability

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 22, 2021

Police officers who abuse citizens usually escape punishment because of an array of legal doctrines that stack the law.

News

Publisher’s Note: The First Amendment’s nervous breakdown at 230

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • November 16, 2021

230 years after its ratification, the First Amendment is having a nervous breakdown. Billions of bits of information and.

News, Opinion

Remembering William ‘Reck’ Recktenwald

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • August 22, 2021

Remembering a great journalist, investigator, teacher, mentor and friend When I woke up the day after William A. Recktenwald.

Opinion

‘Front Page’ to Ferguson: A memoir of half a century of St. Louis journalism

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 9, 2021

As a rookie reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch five decades ago, I sat directly in front of Ted.

Media, Media News, Midwest, News

Jan. 6 insurrection raised misunderstood 1A issues about censorship and incitement

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • January 19, 2021

The Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol raised a host of questions about free expression where the law.

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