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Opinion

Libel decision shut down segregationists clinging to Jim Crow

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 24, 2022

To understand why New York Times v. Sullivan is one of the great First Amendment victories of the past.

Opinion

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s unconstitutional attack on the press

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 17, 2022

From afar, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s attempt to prosecute a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter looks like the folly of.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Wandering cops shuffle between departments, abuse citizens

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 17, 2022

Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his dad. The Independence, Ohio, police department hired him but.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Two St. Louis police killings similar to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor deaths

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 10, 2022

ST. LOUIS — Five years before George Floyd died of “asphyxia-restraint” on a Minneapolis street, 27-year-old Nicholas Gilbert died.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Encircling protesters and targeting journalists undermine right to assemble

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 3, 2022

The right to assemble is as American as apple pie. It is written in the First Amendment — “the.

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