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Free Speech, Forced Speech and the Right to Silence

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Why Anthony Scaramucci Keeps Attacking a Tufts Student

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Anthony Scaramucci Threatened to Sue a Student. Now Tufts University Is Postponing His Talk

The university said it was disappointed in Scaramucci's threat

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Many conservatives believe that universities and colleges have become illiberal spaces that stifle free speech. They point to the violent protests at the University of California, Berkeley, that prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking, or the...

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Fighting Words: A Battle in Berkeley Over Free Speech

A battle in Berkeley over free speech shows how frenzied politics has become

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Republicans Want to Punish Student Protesters

Republican lawmakers are wading into the intensifying debate over free speech on campus, proposing legislation in at least half a dozen states to regulate student protests and discipline hecklers. Inspired by a spate of recent...

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The Right to Speech Vs. the Right to Censor

Milo Yiannopoulos is many things: a onetime editor at the alt-right website Breitbart, a gay and partly Jewish man who regularly disparaged gays and Jews, the self-described "most fabulous supervillain of the Internet" and, in...

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Free Speech Is Central to Our Dignity as Humans

Even “bad,” “wrong” or “hate” speech has value

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Ex-Miss Turkey Guilty of Insulting Erdogan in Satirical Post

She shared an Instagram post that was deemed defamatory

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Azerbaijan Frees Jailed Investigative Journalist

Khadija Ismayilova says the charges against her were "false and illegal"

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China Hunts for Author of Letter Demanding Xi Jinping's Resignation

At least 14 people have disappeared in a matter of weeks

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Australian Sentenced for Sedition in Singapore

The woman, who is pregnant, was arrested during a visit to the city-state last year

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Missing Chinese Journalist Jia Jia Was Arrested at Airport

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