In the U.S., we enjoy the protections of the First Amendment, particularly around political speech –– talking or writing about the wrongs that government and its agencies do. In Russia, as in many other autocratic legal/political systems, dissent is punished by the...
Given the partisan dispute over the Freedom to Vote Act, which was recently voted down in the US Senate, we could easily overlook that this was supposed to be a compromise plan, designed specifically to generate support from both parties. After the demise of the...
“It’s a free country.” Most of us heard this growing up, but few of us understood the First Amendment, and its generosity toward outright inflammatory lying. Whatever the merits of “America’s Mayor,” Rudy Giuliani, he has done our democracy and electoral...
