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New List a Threat to Campus Free Speech, Says PEN America
NEW YORK—The launch of a new website meant to name and accuse college professors of advancing left-wing agenda and discriminating against conservative students is a worrying threat to academic… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump continues to fight the White House Press Corps, Thai junta seeks special censorship powers, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump continues to fight the White House Press Corps, Thai junta seeks special censorship powers, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression PEN America's take on today's most pressing threats to free expression U.S. Hannity calls on Trump to freeze out the press Fox News commentator Sean Hannity… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump bashed New York Times, again, Facebook seeks to censor news in China, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump flip flops on meeting with the New York Times, a Dutch journalist is arrested in Panama over libel, and more. More
The PEN Ten with Morgan Jerkins
"Love. I know it's cheesy but I am obsessed with love and how it shapes a reality between two individuals, a reality that others sometimes cannot fully perceive but… More
IRAN: Prominent Kurdish Filmmaker Keywan Karimi Summoned to Serve Sentence
PEN calls on the Iranian authorities to quash filmmaker Keywan Karimi’s conviction. Karimi is currently serving one year's imprisonment and is required to receive 223 lashes by Tehran Revolutionary… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Donald Trump lashes out at Hamilton and SNL, Egypt jails the head of its journalist union, and more. More
Senate Must Take Hard View at Sessions Appointment, Effect on Free Speech
On the occasion of the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, PEN America urged the Senate to ask probing questions on Senator Sessions’s view towards free speech,… More