On Sept. 13, 2023, the National Constitution Center, in partnership with a coalition of leading free speech organizations,…
The summer of 2023 has been an unusual season of fallout from recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions about guns, abortion, religion,…
On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks carried out against the United States would become the catalyst for at least two wars,…
One of the federal government’s most powerful laws is also known as one of its most controversial statutes: the Espionage Act.
The legendary confrontation between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial took place on a hot…
Last week, a 6-3 Supreme Court said the First Amendment allows a business offering “expressive” services to discriminate based…
On July 3, 1978, the Supreme Court issued its historic verdict in the George Carlin “seven dirty words” case, a decision that…
On June 21, 1989, a deeply divided United States Supreme Court upheld the rights of protesters to burn the American flag in a…
The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States' flag has been part of American life for generations, but not without some…
A lawsuit in California about the use of a car horn at a political protest is bringing back a contested question involving the…
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