And Grok sheds light on the mysterious suspension from X of Consortium News’ CN Live! Executive Producer Cathy Vogan, as more than 5 million accounts were suspended by X in the first half of 2024.
X Made Me Dark
Category: Free Speech
Taking the US Constitution Seriously
Everyone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: American Freefall
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.
A Brief History of ‘The’ Freedom of Speech
The government’s respect for speech is often at its lowest ebb in wartime, when it is also most important and timely, writes Andrew P. Napolitano,
Losing Academic Freedom
The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It’s perfected the art of silent control. It’s not that one is explicitly told what can’t be written — it’s that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous…
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Constitutional Crisis
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
Perilous Times for Freedom in the US
The U.S. government, in its zealous enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, has become lawless, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
‘I Am a Political Prisoner’
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.
Patrick Lawrence: Season of the Sophists
Trump’s disrespect for the law and courts is not the “only question” raised by the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil. There are several others, from long before Jan. 20.
USAID Funded Ukraine Group That Smears Americans
The Trump administration has lambasted the foreign aid agency for absurd foreign expenditures, but Wyatt Reed says it has omitted what is perhaps its most scandalous operation.