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‘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.

First Amendment, Media News, Midwest

Abortion rights foes and supporters chafe at limitations on their speech

By Carly Gist
December 27, 2025

A quarter century after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state statute creating a speech-free bubble zone around healthcare.

Media News, News

Iowa at center of book ban movement

By Elizabeth Tharakan
April 10, 2025

Iowa is one of the leading states for book bans in America, second only to Florida, according to PEN.

News, Opinion

Speech we don’t like needs most protection

By William H. Freivogel
December 21, 2023

The tricky thing about the First Amendment is that you have to protect the speech you hate as fiercely.

News, Opinion

Can the First Amendment keep up with the brave new world of machine manufactured misinformation?

By William H. Freivogel
May 4, 2023

The point of the First Amendment is to protect expression people hate – Nazi protesters in Skokie, anti-war protesters.