PLEASE ALSO READ: A STATEMENT FROM LACEY AND LARKIN ON THEIR 2021 TRIAL MAJOR POINTS Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin and four codefendants currently face 100 counts including the following: facilitating misdemeanor state prostitution offenses in violation of the U.S. Travel…
In twinned stories posted over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, the London Guardian and the New York Times dropped a bombshell that reverberated on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2014, they reported, the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had surreptitiously acquired information from the personal…
In an open letter to the University of Alabama, a trio of civil-rights advocates contend that the school erred earlier this year when it expelled a student who posted insensitive and racist videos on Instagram. The letter was authored by…
As part of a White House push to protect religious rights, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently drew up a proposal that would allow healthcare practitioners to decline to perform certain procedures owing to religious objections. The procedures…
Concerned that the robust exercise of political speech could hurt its nonprofit status, Maine’s state university system is working on a new policy that appears to broadly bar employees from becoming involved in political activities on the universities’ time and…
UPDATE: On January 22, a federal jury in Milwaukee found in favor of former county sheriff David Clarke. After deliberating for about three hours, the jury of five women and two men found that plaintiff Dan Black had failed to…
Who’s afraid of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein? Google, for one. In a Cato Institute opinion piece, John Samples, the libertarian think tank’s vice president, lambastes the tech giant for engaging in “censorship.” Samples says Google buckled to pressure from California’s senior…
He came, he triggered, he tussled. So went Lucian Wintrich’s evening at the University of Connecticut on Tuesday, where campus cops handcuffed and arrested him after a melee broke out during a speech he was attempting to deliver. The UConn College Republicans…
In an address Saturday that seemed tailor-made for an Onion parody (or was it an Onion parody?), French President Emmanuel Macron announced with a straight face that his nation is “sick with sexism” and in deep need of a government-sponsored cure….
The People’s Republic of China’s crackdown on the video- and phone-chat app Skype offers further evidence of what some call China’s “Great Firewall” of censorship. On November 21, the New York Times reported that Apple had eliminated Skype from its app…
