The company's surrender to Trump's extortion vindicates his strategy of using frivolous litigation and his presidential powers to punish constitutionally protected speech.
The Justice Department cannot constitutionally prosecute a news outlet for covering the news.
First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.
Deportation means expelling an alien back to their home country for violating immigration law. Many of the Trump administration's actions don't meet that definition.
The California senator was trying to ask about immigration enforcement when federal agents handcuffed and ejected him.
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
Even readers who are profoundly distrustful of Jake Tapper should pick up a copy.
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The president's lawyers also conflate fraud with defamation, misconstrue the commercial speech doctrine, and assert that false speech is not constitutionally protected.
Even if Laredo cops punished Priscilla Villarreal for constitutionally protected speech, the appeals court says, they would be protected by qualified immunity.
Brown is violating its code of conduct, which guarantees community members’ right to petition the university.
The president is arguing in court that journalism he doesn't like is "election interference" that constitutes consumer fraud.
With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
The commission’s partisan “news distortion” probe is trampling the First Amendment to pressure the press.
The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
The president's portrayal of journalism he does not like as consumer fraud is legally frivolous and blatantly unconstitutional.
Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.
Misinformation concept creep is getting out of hand.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
There are many legitimate criticisms of both USAID and Politico; this is not one of them.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
The company is worried that the president's complaints about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris could block a pending merger.
The president-elect frivolously claims that J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register owe him damages because of an erroneous preelection poll.
The president-elect's lawsuit against The Des Moines Register is a patently frivolous and constitutionally dubious attempt to intimidate the press.
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of misinformation.
The host of This Week repeatedly and inaccurately asserted that Trump had been "found liable for rape."
Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.
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"We're gonna come after the people in the media," the Trump stalwart warns. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out."
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The company, which says it takes an "apolitical approach" to rating news outlets, faces regulatory threats and a congressional probe because of its perceived bias against conservatives.
What comes next will be more fragmented, more decentralized, and more authentic than the old legacy networks.
When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.
The Republican presidential candidate argues that CBS and The Washington Post broke the law by covering the election in ways he did not like.
After being arrested for doing journalism, Priscilla Villarreal has taken her fight to the courts.
Trump criticized Liz Cheney's interventionism. He did not say she should "go before a firing squad."
The change in official warnings and news coverage reflects the dearth of evidence that malicious pranksters are trying to dose trick-or-treaters.
By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.
Despite his cluelessness, the former president's inclination to punish constitutionally protected speech reflects his authoritarian disregard for civil liberties.
The former president's authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages.
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