
October Featured Case: Dareen Tatour
Tatour was charged with incitement to violence and support of terrorism, stemming primarily from a reading of her poem “Resist, My People, Resist Them” posted on YouTube… More

DARE: Twitter finds hundreds of accounts tied to Russian operatives
Twitter presents to closed-door meetings of Senate and House intelligence committees in widening probe into how Russian operatives used social media and other digital platforms to spread disinformation and… More

DARE: Presidential tweet accuses Facebook of being “anti-Trump”
Presidential tweet accuses Facebook of being "anti-Trump"; social network counters that it is pro-truth and pro-democracy, citing a broad series of measures it took to during this week's German… More

Dylan Edwards on “Fun Home”
Fun Home gets banned for the same reasons it resonates: It tells queer people we exist, and that oppression can kill us... More

DARE: Sessions criticizes U.S. universities for their free-speech policies
Attorney General Jeff Sessions goes to Georgetown University to exercise his free-speech rights to attack American higher education institutions for what he sees as impingement on those rights... More

Two Poems by Mário de Andrade
I’ll go to estados-unidos / and tell every lady on the estados-unidos / that I have nothing to do with them / because i have you. More

DARE: Guggenheim, Bowing to Animal-Rights Activists, Pulls Works From Show
Guggenheim pulls three controversial works for from exhibition, citing threats from animal rights activists. Protests planned for speech by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the topic of free speech... More

DARE: New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
Trump administration issues revised travel ban, with more countries' citizens barred indefinitely from entering the United States. More

The PEN Ten: Banned Books Edition with Alex Gino
Writers both expose what is happening in society and give escape from it. We share reality and explore alternatives. More

The PEN Ten: Banned Books Edition with Juno Dawson
I see myself as a storyteller. I think it’s a universal language we all speak, and stories have the power to unite us as a race. More