DARE: If There Is a Free-Speech ‘Crisis’ on Campus, Lawmakers Are Making It Worse
PEN America releases new report on the state of free expression on college campuses at a time of heightened political polarization. (Find the report here.) Organizations across the political... More
DARE: Democratic Senators Want Intelligence Community to Submit Report on Khashoggi’s Murder
Democratic senators introduce a bill compelling the director of national intelligence Dan Coats to submit a report on the death of Jamal Khashoggi... More
DARE: ‘Fake News’ Goes Global as Trump, in Britain, Rips the Press
President Trump takes his attacks on the democratic institution of a free press abroad, yet again branding much of the U.S. news media as the "enemy of the people"… More
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The Waukee school district removed three LGBTQ books from the Northwest High School library last week after someone requested a review of their contents, school officials say. https://bit.ly/3jGN4yN
PEN America, alongside 10 other human rights organizations, calls on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release journalist Tawfik Ghanem, who has been arbitrarily detained for 150 days solely because of his media work. https://thefreedomi.org/releases/joint-statement-calls-on-egypt-to-immediately-release-journalist-tawfik-ghanem-after-150-days-in-detention/
Final reading below! Massive thank you to everyone at @PENamerica, the fellows, @jennybhatt, and my mentor Patricia Engel. What an incredible time this has been with the PEN America 2021 Emerging Voices fellowship @pen_ev... https://pen.org/event/2021-emerging-voices-final-reading
