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First Amendment, Media News, Midwest, Special Projects

Freedom to read is in peril

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 27, 2025

Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Tennessee, Wyoming, Texas and Florida remove hundreds of books despite the First Amendment NIXA, Mo. —.

First Amendment, Media News, Special Projects

As the United States turns 250, the First Amendment faces an onslaught of censorship

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 27, 2025

Almost 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, the United States still is striving to meet the promises of.

First Amendment, Media News, Special Projects

‘This is not normal’: First Amendment faces extraordinary pressures in the wake of Kirk assassination

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 27, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the extraordinary week of threats, recriminations, firings, suspensions and lawsuits that followed tested the outer.

Media News, Midwest

In Conversation: Sixty years of civil rights activism by the iconic Percy Green

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • May 22, 2025

Sixty-one years ago, Percy Green began a hunger strike in front of the office of then-St. Louis Treasurer John.

Election, Media News, News

100 days of chaos

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • May 1, 2025

In 100 days of chaos, President Donald J. Trump has violated laws, ignored time-tested norms, damaged the world’s most.

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