By William Schwartz >> In late January, the University of Texas at Dallas removed its newspaper stands in an effort to kill The Mercury, the university’s student newspaper following protracted attempts to attack the newspaper’s editorial line by removing its editor-in-chief, Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez. The Mercury is back, in a sense. It’s now known as
By William H. Freivogel Edward R. Martin Jr., known for decades in Missouri for his fervid devotion to Catholic values, was rebuked this month by the dean of Georgetown Law School for violating the Catholic principles in pressuring the university to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion from its curriculum. Dean William M. Treanor sent a
Students in the “Cartooning” class at Columbia College Chicago created cartoons about the 2024 election. The class is taught by Richard Laurent, who worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Laurent is an adjunct at Columbia. Some of the cartoons were first published in the Columbia Chronicle and are reprinted with permission.
By Sam Stecklow and William H. Freivogel On July 4, 2023, Samuel Davis, a 26-year-old officer for the Northwoods Police Department in North St. Louis County, took Charles Garmon into custody at a Walgreens. After handcuffing Garmon, Davis drove him to a remote intersection outside of a Pepsi bottling plant in Kinloch, a now-largely industrial
By William H. Freivogel Missouri and the right-wing Gateway Pundit lost their U.S. Supreme Court claims that the Biden administration had coerced social media companies to suppress their free speech by removing false and dangerous internet posts about COVID-19, vaccinations and election denial. The vote was 6-3 with three of the more moderate conservatives joining
