For more information, please contact Elizabeth DeMeo at [email protected], 202.862.4876. Event Summary Most Americans know that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech and religion, but what ...

"The Shawshank Redemption" actor Tim Robbins held nothing back in a searing take down of government leaders that promoted COVID-19 lockdown policies in a recent interview. The movie star claimed those ...

Neither the invective-filled disparagement from White House officials nor the vulgar video posted by President Donald Trump on Oct. 18, in which he hailed himself wearing a crown and piloting a jet ...

The journalist, Mario Guevara, has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since June, when he was arrested while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta. By Neil Vigdor and Hannah ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” as the U.S. constitution’s first amendment calls it, is one of the pillars of liberty. That’s why all ...

Caroline Hodes receives funding from SSHRC (in the past). Since then, Ontario delayed allowing so-called bubble families — gatherings of more than five people — when the province’s COVID-19 cases ...

Elections are really complex accounting practices. It’s not just a final vote count that is fraught and difficult. Citizens going to the polls must consciously make multiple personal calculations: ...

The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK,” documents that the UK’s Labour government has failed to reverse sweeping ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Russia had violated an citizens’ right to freedom of assembly and free speech on Tuesday. The applicants in the case were subject to ...

The German Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld citizens’ right to hold political protests after a group of activists in the state of Hesse petitioned the court with a document titled “Strengthen ...

Jimmy Lai, who is charged with national security offenses, testified that his newspaper “carried a torch to the reality” of people’s desire for freedom in the city. By David Pierson and Tiffany May ...