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Library protest.A person walks past empty shelves at the library in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, after residents have spent the week withdrawing their maximum allowance of books to stop the council's plans to close it as part of budget cuts.

Sep 7, 2023

Why Is Texas Eliminating School Libraries?

Aug 30, 2023

How Mastercard is Endangering Sex Workers

Teacher and activist against censorship, Mary Wood.

Aug 29, 2023

Meet Mary Wood, a Teacher Resisting Censorship

A professor in front of a class full of students.

Aug 8, 2023

Idaho Wants to Jail Professors for Teaching About Abortion

A group using a computer and smartphone.

Aug 1, 2023

Arkansas Wants to Unconstitutionally 鈥淐ard鈥� People Before They Use Social Media

An individual with a sweatshirt featuring faces of the many victims of police violence.

Jul 13, 2023

10 Years of #BlackLivesMatter: Progress and Backlash

Jul 6, 2023

Supreme Court Term in Review: Reconciling Our Losses and Wins

Jun 12, 2023

Core First Amendment Rights are Implicated in This Supreme Court Case about True Threats

May 25, 2023

Sasha Colby Is Winning in More Ways Than One

May 11, 2023

Banning TikTok is a Really Bad Idea

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News & Commentary about Free Speech