First Amendment

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In defense of Lou Dobbs
Nasty, nativist and pandering to the worst in America? Sure. But overstepping the bounds of the First Amendment? Uh, nope.
Free speech for the rich and powerful
How the Roberts-led Supreme Court is setting the stage for bureaucrats to shape American culture from the top down.
First Amendment martyr?
Josh Wolf tells Salon why he spent 226 days in prison rather than comply with a subpoena, and gives his take on what a "journalist" is.
Molly lives
Like Mark Twain, Molly Ivins treated us to the sound of America in her prose and style. She was the rare, gifted journalist whose work transcended the news that inspired it.
The citizenship test: New, improved and wrong
Only some of the answers on the government's new test are flat-out incorrect, but many are misleading to would-be students of the Constitution.
Hopeless
Americans know more about "The Simpsons" than the First Amendment.
I support the troops, but the police chief is an "idiot"
Police apologize for arresting Sheehan and ousting a congressman's wife for wearing T-shirts to Bush's speech.
Pittsburgh to abortion clinic protesters: Back off
City Council approves ordinance requiring antiabortion activists to keep their distance from clinics.
A bitter defeat for the press
The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the Cooper-Miller case will do more than hurt two reporters -- it will erode the press's ability to cover sensitive stories.
Secret Service does another patriot act
A Portland man who responded to news of an investigation of controversial anti-Bush art in Chicago, receives a visit of his own from the feds.
A "volunteer" police state
Why were we forced out of Bush's Social Security talk? And why won't the White House identify that fake Secret Service agent who stopped us?
"Welcome to Red Lake"
A muckraking Chippewa journalist says tribal press constraints keep details of the recent school shooting murky -- and hide systemic problems on the reservation where he grew up.
Building religious tolerance
A reader and Ed Yoder, the author of "False Prophets," discuss the origins of the separation of church and state, and say we're lucky that deists were involved.
False prophets
The Founders would be appalled at the Bush administration's shameless religious exhibitionism.
Operation American Repression?
An Army sergeant in Iraq who wrote a highly critical article on the administration's conduct of the war is being investigated for disloyalty -- if charged and convicted, he could get 20 years.
Risky business
The legal maneuvering to determine which Bush administration officials leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to Bob Novak, Matthew Cooper and other reporters has just begun.
Grounding the flying nun
Activists on the left and right -- including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush "is dumb as a rock" -- have long complained they were being hassled by airport security. After months of silence, the federal government says: It's true.
Playing games with free speech
A federal judge says computer games don't deserve First Amendment protection. His decision is wrong, stupid and dangerous.
Killing the messenger
William Harvey discovered the limits of free speech when he paraded a block away from ground zero with a poster of Osama bin Laden.
John Ashcroft's holy war
Once again, the attorney general's deeply held religious beliefs interfere with his job as defender of the Constitution.
Big Brother is watching you read
Increasingly, the government is demanding that bookstores reveal what books their customers have purchased. Bookstore owners and privacy advocates say that's scarier than a Stephen King novel.
Cyber slammed
Kids are getting arrested for raunchy online bullying. It's definitely offensive, but is it against the law?
Banning censorship
First Amendment attorney and author Marjorie Heins argues that obscenity laws do children more harm than good.
If you flame, you get burned
I'm the gay kid the Christian Coalition wants your kid to be able to harass at school.
"Bringing faith to the West Wing" and "Base language"
Readers react to Salon's coverage of Bush's faith-based charities plan.
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