If you read certain columnists or follow a particular set of writers and pundits on social media—including me—you know that the First Amendment is always in crisis. Nearly every incursion, whether it’s the shouting down of a conservative speaker on a college campus or an alleged incident of hate speech, gets shoved into a civil-liberties outrage machine, generating new cycles of vitriol and pushback. And yet the resulting debates, on op-ed pages and elsewhere, can feel strangely abstract and academic.
By covering the Supreme Court’s hearing of Trump’s immunity claim as if the court were impartial and nonpartisan, the media has done the American people a serious disservice.
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., on October 7, 2022.
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In the few days since the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. United
In the criminal case now unfolding in a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump is accused of having a sexual encounter with Stormy Daniels, finding a way to pay her to keep quiet about it, and then disguising those payments as a business expense. The facts are all very tabloid-y. They also took place before the 2016 election, long before January 6 or the “Stop the Steal” movement, or any of the more serious threats to democracy we associate with Trump.
But
The triumphant tweet said it all. ‘I fought the law and I WON!’ announced Ellie Wilson, telling the world of a groundbreaking victory — one that she hopes will change the way rape victims are treated in court.
Ellie, 26, is one extraordinary young woman who has done a lot of healing in the public spotlight. It is four years since she summoned up the courage to tell police that her abusive then-partner had raped her.
The odds were against
The years of hurt counter has ticked into its 52nd year, but this summer England will head to Germany as favourites to win a first major tournament since 1966.
Gareth Southgate is blessed with arguably the strongest team the Three Lions have fielded in a number of years and there is palpable excitement to see the likes of Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Phil Foden combine together.
That is to say nothing of exciting youngsters Kobbie Mainoo and Anthony Gordon,
Um es klar zu sagen: Der Wert und die Vorteile gesunder natürlicher Ökosysteme sind unbezahlbar.
Noor Yafai ist Europadirektor für globale Politik und institutionelle Partnerschaften von The Nature Conservancy.
Von großen und kleinen Unternehmen bis hin zu Grundbesitzern und Landwirten, Innovatoren, Behörden des öffentlichen Sektors und Bürgern aller EU-Mitgliedstaaten hängen alle unsere unterschiedlichen Lebensweisen – und letztendlich unser gemeinsames Überleben – von der Stabilität der natürlichen, lebenserhaltenden Systeme aller ab um uns herum.
Diese natürlichen Systeme sind selbst durch den
Investigation Discovery’s docuseries on Nickelodeon unsealed the letters of support dialogue coach Brian Peck received after being arrested for sexually abusing actor Drake Bell in 2003.
The contents of the letters were briefly shown during the fourth episode of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which will air on Monday, March 18. Directors Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz confirmed to Us Weekly that they petitioned the Los Angeles court to
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s hearing at the British High Court in London for his possible final
One of America’s most famous UFO cases — if not, the most famous — has been thrust back into the spotlight, decades after the Air Force claimed to have solved it.
The Roswell incident of 1947 captured imaginations worldwide when the US Army Air Force issued a press release stating that it had recovered debris from a ‘flying disc.’
But less than 24 hours later, military officials reversed course, announcing that the debris had only come from a crashed weather
