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Justin Ide / Reuters How to Win Friends and Stigmatize Nazis
Businesses are right to fire people with heinous views. But it's important to do so under a well-defined framework.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Democrats Mount an Effort to Censure Donald Trump
The House resolution faults the president for failing to adequately condemn white supremacists “and assure the American people of his resolve to opposing domestic terrorism.”
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Dark Matter of America's Foremost Musical Satirist
Randy Newman has done as much as any songwriter to anticipate the tragicomic place where the country finds itself. And his best work may still be ahead.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters It's Up to Congress to Call Trump to Account
A bipartisan vote condemning the president’s failure to distance himself from white supremacism could provide the leadership he has failed to offer.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters A Question for Google's CEO
In Sundar Pichai’s letter to employees, an important piece of information about the company’s response to a memo on diversity is inaccessible.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The Weakness of Trump's Plan to Fight Opioids
Instead of shaking up the status quo, the self-proclaimed outsider doubles down on an approach that has failed to stop drug abuse for more than six decades.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo
Many headlines labeled the document “anti-diversity,” misleading readers about its actual contents.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Do Trump's Supporters Allow Him to Insult Their Intelligence?
Instead of complaining about actual flaws in media coverage, the president airs a fabricated grievance.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Lena Dunham Approach to Twitter Call-Outs
There are better ways to work toward a more just society in the connected era.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Campus-Speech Debate Spends Summer Break in Statehouses
While student activists are away, legislators have transformed the fight over how free expression is regulated on public university campuses.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters 'Nice to See You Out in Southampton'
A portrait of the Trump family as coastal elites
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters 'We Pretended That the Emperor Wasn’t Naked'
Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes on President Trump—but stops well short of calling for his removal.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Congress Finds Consensus on Free Speech on Campus
Witnesses tell legislators that lots of so-called hate speech is constitutionally protected, that harassing or threatening speech is not, and that white supremacists ought to be denounced.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Depravity Is Downstream of Donald Trump
Four ways the president is validating Andrew Breitbart’s dictum on the primacy of culture in American politics
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Lisa Hornak / Reuters Donald Trump Eats First
Even prominent right-wing populists are beginning to worry that they invested their faith in an unstable leader.
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Amir Cohen / Reuters Why an Effort to Thwart Some Boycotts of Israel Fails the Free-Speech Test
Even analysts who cannot agree on what the legislation actually says largely agree that Congress should reject it.
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Amr Dalsh / Reuters How Venice Beach Became a Neighborhood for the Wealthy
... and what that means for affordable housing across the country
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Case for Impeaching Trump If He Fires Robert Mueller
Terminating the special counsel would show recklessness, imply corruption, and irrevocably damage the country.
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Shutterstock Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech
Claremont McKenna punished multiple campus activists who shut down an event featuring a pro-police speaker—but were those punishments justified?
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Jeff Sessions Treads on the Property Rights of Americans
The Attorney General announced that the Department of Justice will engage in more civil-asset seizures, a practice many conservatives have recognized as a deplorable abuse.
