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The Trump Administration’s Recent Attacks on First Amendment Rights May Mirror Viktor Orban’s Autocratic Ruling Style

by Clara Chrisman | Nov 1, 2025 | University of Georgia

When asked about Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orban,  Donald Trump stated, “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s fantastic”. Considering the illiberal, autocratic government style that Orban practices, one may ask why the...

“Disinformation Board”: US Government Approaches 1st Amendment Encroachments As Threats to Tech Monopolies Intensify

by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | May 9, 2022 | Brown University

At the end of last month the Biden administration unveiled a new “Disinformation Board” within the Department of Homeland Security, aimed at attacking online “disinformation” as a national security threat in and of itself. Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has...

Are Human Rights at Risk? A Deeper Look at Tennessee’s Newly Implemented Anti-Protest Law

by Madison Ambrose | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University

Tennesseans have been protesting against systemic racism and police brutality since June, joining other states in demanding justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, two Black Americans killed by police officers earlier this year. The murders of Floyd and Taylor...
Racial slurs on campus: The first amendment and freedom of the press By : John Blake Stayton @ The University of Memphis

Racial slurs on campus: The first amendment and freedom of the press By : John Blake Stayton @ The University of Memphis

by John Stayton | Apr 13, 2018 | University of Memphis

  On March 16th 2018, I participated in a philanthropy hosted by a sorority on campus. The event was a lip sync and dance routine that was attended by over 900 members of the campus community. As I was back stage preparing to perform, I had no idea what was...

First Amendment Education by Wallace Anne Cloud @ Skidmore College

by Wallace Anne Cloud | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College

This week I attended a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County entitled “The First Amendment: Our Obligation to Assemble, Protest, and Protect the Free Press.”  According to its website, the League of Women Voters is “a nonpartisan political...

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