President Trump’s Efforts to Halt Publication of Critical Book Flagrantly Unconstitutional
The President should immediately withdraw and repudiate this outrageous demand, allowing the American people to render their own judgement of the book. More
Trump’s Calls to Fire Washington Post’s Dave Weigel Infringe on First Amendment, says PEN America
For the President to call for a reporter to be fired infringes on the First Amendment, even if the journalist's private employer has the wisdom to ignore the advice… More
Take a Stand—and a Knee—with NFL Athletes
The President is way out of bounds when he calls for athletes to be fired for acts of protected speech. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump doubles down on North Korea, Google cancels town hall after employees targeted in online harassment campaign, Russia sentences journalist to prison on extremism charges, and more in free… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Google fires employee who wrote anonymous memo questioning the role of women in engineering; Scientists leak government report on climate change; Agriculture dept. employees stopped from using the term… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump calls for a ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military, reversing Obama-era policy. Attorneys for the President want a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump talks politics and lashes out in front of 30,000 youth at a Boy Scout jamboree. Snopes fact-checking website locked in a dispute with a vendor/business partner that has… More
DARE To Be Informed
Trump bashes news outlets over exchange with Putin at the G-20 summit, Winnie the Pooh faces wrath of Chinese censors, and more in free expression news from around the… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort demands the New York Times retract an article alleging he is in debt to pro-Russia interests; Hong Kong book fair feels pressure from… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Amid an ongoing investigation of his son’s ties with Russia, President Trump took to Twitter this weekend to defend Donald Jr., Delta counters Ann Coulter Twitter tirade, denouncing the… More
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With hateful sentiment let loose in society writ large, the impulse has intensified to police speech in smaller, more controlled spaces. My @washingtonpost oped
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As a nationwide community of novelists, journalists, editors, and writers, PEN America holds that President Trump’s efforts to use the power of the state against the media are not only unbecoming a US President—they’re unconstitutional. https://t.co/q5nJXduJn2