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Opinion

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

  • By William Freivogel
  • September 19, 2025

Hunter Mays and Elijah Dickerson hold American flags in the air during an evening candlelight vigil held for Charlie Kirk Sept 14, 2025 in Marion, Illinois. (Lylee Gibbs | @lyleegibbsphoto)

Constitutional Issues, News

News Analysis: Big institutions retreat from First Amendment fight

  • By William Freivogel
  • September 12, 2025

This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Media, universities and law groups forgo legal challenges.

Constitutional Issues, News

News Analysis: The First Amendment is for everyone — equally

  • By William Freivogel
  • September 12, 2025

This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The First Amendment protects everyone’s freedom — Nazis,.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

‘We were just trying to do the job and survive’

  • By Tyler Harden
  • September 7, 2025

Inside The Times-Picayune newsroom, Paula O’Byrne, then the paper’s copy desk chief, was editing stories in the dark as.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Art critic transformed after reporting on the Katrina floods

  • By Noah Martin
  • September 7, 2025

Doug MacCash was a full-time art critic for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans when weather forecasters began predicting that.

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