In these fraught political times when our political choices are largely limited to authoritarian Republicans and totalitarian Democrats and federal agencies vie for opportunities to violate individual ...

Trump appointee Amul Thapar unleashed an appalling judicial broadside against the constitutional rights of noncitizens that amounts to a wholesale negation of our judicial history. A federal judge in ...

Iowa has long stood at the intersection of First Amendment battles. In 1938, Des Moines Public Library Director Forrest Spaulding penned the words that would become the Library Bill of Rights. In 1969 ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison advocating a Bill of Rights: "Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." Congress shall make no law ...

George Emilio Sánchez speaks at the First Amendment Day Rally on December 15, 2025. (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) A group of cultural leaders, artists, and local politicians gathered today ...