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
Tony Messenger delivers Millstone Lecture at Saint Louis University Law School By Tony Messenger If you look on Missouri’s court website today, you’ll see that I have a bad muffler. Or had one, anyway. In fact, the muffler on my 2016 Camry Hybrid is just fine. It’s pristine. The truth is, I have a lead
By William H. Freivogel The tricky thing about the First Amendment is that you have to protect the speech you hate as fiercely as the speech you love. You have to protect leftist speech as much as rightist speech. Communists as much as fascists. Religious fundamentalists as much as atheists. Calls for war as much
