If democracy is our nation’s engine, then political protest is its gas pedal — and it has been since our founding. Early Americans rose up to protest the tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, ...

The free speech rights of first graders are at the center of an ongoing legal fight in California. In a March 10 opinion, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a lower court's ...

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. If you have been paying attention at all, you know that we are living in dangerous times in this country. Donald ...

From Justice Gorsuch's opinion for a nearly unanimous Court today in Chiles v. Salazar (only Justice Jackson dissented): In 2019, Colorado adopted a law prohibiting licensed counselors from engaging ...

New research, court rulings, and a federal watchdog report have documented that U.S. surveillance programs, notably under FISA Section 702, suppress lawful speech and association. Studies following ...

If you value factual, determined truth telling, World Press Freedom Day, celebrated this month, is for you. It comes amid increasing peril for journalists around the world. In 2025, a journalist was ...

A federal complaint alleged a first grader in California was punished for giving a "Black Lives Matter" drawing to an African American classmate in 2021. A court ruled in favor of the school district, ...