DARE: U.S. News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules
American news outlets block access to their websites from Europe rather than comply with strict new European data privacy laws. Privacy concerns arise over voice-activated "assistants" in the home… More
President’s Objectionable Remarks Part of Broader Reprehensible Effort to Stoke Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
"Suggestions that President Trump was referring only to gang members when he said “These aren’t people. These are animals," do not change the underlying context in which these remarks must… More
DARE: New Mexico Paper Apologizes for Cartoon Portraying ‘Dreamers’ as Muggers
The editor of one of New Mexico’s leading newspapers, The Albuquerque Journal, issued an apology over an editorial cartoon that many people interpreted as a bigoted attack on DACA… More
Order to Release Ravi Ragbir Does Not Mark End of His Ordeal or of Trump Administration’s Efforts to Silence Immigrants’ Rights Activists
The detention and deportation (or threat thereof) of immigrants’ rights activists under the Trump administration have raised serious concerns that those targeted are being punished for their speech and… More
DARE: Women’s Marches end with eyes on the midterms
The Women's March, which was honored last year with the PEN/Toni & James C. Goodale Free Expression Courage Award, is reprised with demonstrations around the country drawing hundreds of… More
Arts Community Rallies Against Muslim Travel Ban
Thirty arts groups—including PEN America, the Sundance Institute, Americans for the Arts, and the Future of Music Coalition—have jointly filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to strike… More
Denial of Asylum to Dr. Radwan Ziadeh on Dubious Grounds Would Harm Free Expression, Peacebuilding Around the World
WASHINGTON—A coalition of human rights groups called on members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the United States Customs and Immigration Service’s announcement that it intends to deny… More
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