Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned on Saturday that freedom of speech was under threat at universities and that freedom of religion was in peril in society at large. “Troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles,” he said. He made his remarks at a commencement ceremony at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, a Catholic institution. “Support for freedom of speech is declining dangerously, especially where it should find deepest acceptance,” he said. A...
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Saturday warned that support for freedom of speech is "declining dangerously," especially on college campuses, as part of a commencement address he delivered at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic college in Ohio. His remarks appeared to reference unrest at various college campuses around the country arising from protests against Israel's military operations in Gaza. “Right now in the world outside this beautiful campus,...
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Photojournalist Joseph Rushmore was violently arrested while covering a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas at Austin. His case is one of many press freedom violations documented by the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker related to campus protests in recent days. Courtesy of Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune. Press freedom violations have soared in recent weeks, as a nationwide protest movement over the Israel-Gaza war has spread across...
Chris Lehmann The president’s ahistorical account of Gaza failed to acknowledge the discomfiting truth that brutalized communities can visit the same traumas on others.
President Akufo-Addo has underscored his government's unwavering support for a free and independent press in the country.
Harrison Butker also attacked "degenerate cultural values" and "the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion".