First Amendment

  • Palin doesn't understand First Amendment

    In an interview, Sarah Palin suggests her free speech rights are threatened when reporters criticize her.
    By Alex Koppelman October 31, 2008

  • 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.
    By Andrew Leonard April 29, 2008

  • 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.
    By Garrett Epps June 29, 2007

  • 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.
    By Alex Koppelman April 13, 2007

  • 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.
    By Joe Conason February 2, 2007

  • 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.
    By Steven Lubet January 3, 2007

  • Hopeless

    Americans know more about "The Simpsons" than the First Amendment.
    By Tim Grieve March 1, 2006

  • 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.
    By Tim Grieve February 2, 2006

  • Pittsburgh to abortion clinic protesters: Back off

    City Council approves ordinance requiring antiabortion activists to keep their distance from clinics.
    By Lynn Harris December 14, 2005

  • 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.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 28, 2005

  • 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.
    By Mark Follman June 14, 2005

  • 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?
    By Leslie Weise April 25, 2005

  • "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.
    By Emily Schmall March 26, 2005

  • 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.
    November 16, 2004

  • False prophets

    The Founders would be appalled at the Bush administration's shameless religious exhibitionism.
    By Edwin M. Yoder Jr. November 9, 2004

  • 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.
    By Eric Boehlert September 29, 2004

  • 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.
    By Eric Boehlert August 13, 2004

  • 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.
    By Dave Lindorff July 25, 2003

  • Playing games with free speech

    A federal judge says computer games don't deserve First Amendment protection. His decision is wrong, stupid and dangerous.
    By Wagner James Au May 6, 2002

  • 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.
    By Christopher Ketcham April 8, 2002

  • John Ashcroft's holy war

    Once again, the attorney general's deeply held religious beliefs interfere with his job as defender of the Constitution.
    By Robert Scheer February 27, 2002

  • 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.
    By Christopher Dreher February 13, 2002

  • Cyber slammed

    Kids are getting arrested for raunchy online bullying. It's definitely offensive, but is it against the law?
    By Amy Benfer July 3, 2001

  • Banning censorship

    First Amendment attorney and author Marjorie Heins argues that obscenity laws do children more harm than good.
    By Amy Benfer June 11, 2001

  • If you flame, you get burned

    I'm the gay kid the Christian Coalition wants your kid to be able to harass at school.
    By Casey Creel May 17, 2001
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