Last week, amid the usual tsunami of grim news about inflation, mass shootings, pandemic, and war, came word that the New York Court of Appeals is considering whether the Bronx Zoo is violating the rights of Happy, an Asian elephant who’s lived there for more than four decades, by confining her to a portion of […]
Tag: First Amendment
Posted inNews & Politics
Journalist Danny Fenster’s detainment shows we are living Fahrenheit 451
The Columbia College graduate has been held in Myanmar to the detriment of free speech everywhere.
Posted inNews & Politics
Objection!
Who needs Facebook and Russian trolls when Illinois election laws sow plenty of bad faith?
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A professor’s article claiming Israel’s “moral right” to annex the West Bank has caused an uproar at DePaul
To censure or not to censure? The university community is divided.
Posted inBlogs
The media is itching for a fight with Trump
Journalists preparing to enter the age of Trump are rolling up their sleeves.
Posted inBlogs
Thursday was actually a bad day for Trump
Millions of voting Americans—including hundreds of thousands in Chicago—come from those Eastern European countries Trump might not bother to defend
Posted inBlogs
Missouri Republicans jump at the chance to despise Melissa Click
Eric Zorn sticks up for Mizzou professor Melissa Click.
Posted inBlogs
The only American right we can’t afford to lose, according to the GOP
Republican presidential candidates seem to think that First Amendment rights might have to go—so thank God for the Second.
Posted inBlogs
When First Amendment rights collide
Reconsidering freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as Chicago protesters ask for “black-only” space.
Posted inBlogs
Who is a journalist, anyway? Mizzou raises the question.
Anyone can claim to be a journalist. But that’s OK.
Posted inBlogs
Let Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell write what she thinks about rape
Even if she’s wrong, let’s not muzzle Mary Mitchell—conversations change minds. Censorship doesn’t.
Posted inNews & Politics
Chicago police are spying on citizens
Authorities have conducted surveillance on activists in recent years but won’t say why.
Posted inBlogs
Freedom of speech, artistic license, snow, and the Sunday Trib
Arguing with the Sunday Chicago Tribune
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Full Frontal for a Cause
The Indiana erotic dancers lost their Supreme Court case; this New York-based troupe scored a win with their uncensored version.
Posted inNews & Politics
A tough lesson about the N-word
Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used “nigger” in a sixth-grade class?