The press pool is a proxy for the wider fight over whether the president, or anyone, can control the content of news reports ...

On Sept. 19, President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. This event emphasizes what’s now becoming an unprecedented and shocking discussion — the growing threat ...

The legal action centered on the “recruitment” clause, involving sharing information about how to obtain abortions legally in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term today, Oct. 5. One of the cases that the justices have agreed to hear is a First Amendment religious-liberty case, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. The case ...

When two popular science magazines – out of about 17 in circulation – ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, “The science magazines didn’t shake out. They fell apart.” The general ...

In the latest newsletter … White House access saga … First Amendment on Supreme Court docket … revising SPJ’s ethics code … 31 religion options … and much ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press ...

Corporate speech refers to the rights of corporations to advertise their products and to speak to matters of public concern. Commercial speech, as manifested through advertising, and political speech ...

provisions in the Bill of Rights protecting people’s liberties. One way of suppressing speech is to arrest individuals who have expressed unpopular views. In Gonzalez v. Trevino, the Supreme Court ...

The words are plain, blunt and unequivocal — without literary frill or poetic flourish — a directive intended to put the natural rights of citizens above and beyond the punitive power of the new ...

When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political parties – ...