Meghan McCain seldom misses an opportunity to remind everyone who her father was, and when the co-host of ABC’s The View saw a chance to buff the family image during the January 15 episode of the popular daytime TV talk show, she…
The Thanksgiving leftovers barely had time to cool before Major League Baseball’s commissioner quietly tiptoed into the national political fray. Two days later, Rob Manfred’s office was forced to very publicly scramble out of said swamp. On Friday, November 23,…
Under proposed “Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018,” protesters who wear disguises or masks could get fifteen years in federal pen Appeals court to decide whether the First Amendment protects a teen who texted her troubled boyfriend, encouraging him to commit…
Trump wants “his people” to “sit up at attention” when he speaks, like North Koreans do for dictator Kim Jong-un Complaints from female bus drivers spur New York City MTA to pull Museum of Sex ads Embed from Getty Images…
In his preposterous campaign for U.S. Senate, Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, and a convicted criminal, has 1) suggested that he can read President Donald Trump’s mind 2) revived the racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and…
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…
A few weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, alt-right luminary Richard Spencer delivered a celebratory address at the National Policy Institute’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” Spencer chanted to rousing…
The First Amendment protects the vilest forms of speech, whether it comes in the form of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville or cowardly racists scrawling “White Pride” on the side of a unique message board on the campus of the University of…
Like Sweeney Todd with a straight razor, Twitter has begun slashing the accounts of far-right extremists, enacting a new set of anti-hate speech protocols and inspiring the hashtag #TwitterPurge. As part of the new regime, the San Francisco-based social media…
Attempting to squelch the free-speech rights of others can prove disastrous. Just ask the City of Charlottesville, Virginia. A 207-page independent report, commissioned by the Charlottesville City Council and completed on November 24, reveals the march of folly that preceded…
