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What, exactly, is America's free speech problem, and what can we do about it?

A bad analogy that reveals something important about the social justice/anti-woke debate

It looks like John Durham’s investigation is going out with a whimper.

Paradoxically, concern about cancel culture has itself become a threat to free speech.

The Trumpist group behind the ads wants to provoke alarm. Here are the facts.

The right’s gun fetish isn't about the Second Amendment. It’s about intimidation.

In MAGA world, racist incitement isn’t a mistake — it's a strategy. And it reopens a wound that nearly killed the patient before.

The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.

Don’t Expect The US Government To Actually Stop Elon From Buying Twitter by Mike Masnick

Honestly, the only thing one can say about the whole Elon Musk buying Twitter situation is that you should expect the unexpected to happen. Nothing about this deal has been normal, even though some moves (like Musk coming up with laughably ridiculous pretextual excuses to try to get out of the deal) were telegraphed way […]

Not with a bang. But with a shrug.

Two Hatreds Empower Anti-Semitism on the Right by David French

When a movement loses its moral voice and its moral will

Right-wing talkers love slapping their faces on anti-“woke” alternatives to big companies, but in the case of PureTalk it’s actually no alternative at all.

Christian Humanism by Beca Bruder

An invitation to a truer story.

Cities with progressive prosecutors may not exactly resemble the dystopian landscapes you’ve heard so much about.

Zero cheers for Kanye West and Vladimir Putin

Setting the record straight.

An October 2022 tweet from lawmaker Rep. Mike Johnson mentioned a proposed Republican bill, the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act."

My Pregnancy vs. the State of Texas by The Meteor

Eighteen weeks into her pregnancy, Amanda Zurawski felt something “off”—and learned from doctors that her child could not survive. Miscarriage was inevitable—”but what happened next was not,” she writes. Under Texas’s abortion ban, doctors could not provide her with care, starting a medical disaster that ended with her in the ICU. Now Amanda and her husband Josh are speaking out: “This will happen to many women,” she writes, “if we do not fight back.”

Once a “rising star” inside the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard’s star has since fallen. Republicans, in all their wisdom, have decided to pick it up, dust it off, and follow it into a cul-de-sac. “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party,” Gabbard revealed last week. She said ...