DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

President Trump's crude and sexist Twitter insults against TV news commentators raise again questions about the content and contours of presidential speech. Responding, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough say… More

DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

New York Times copy editors and top editors spar over planned job cuts, college free speech bill vetoed by Louisiana governor, encrypted messaging app registers with Russian regulator following… More

Liu Xiaobo

An Urgent Appeal for Liu Xiaobo

We write to express our concern over the health condition of Liu Xiaobo…and to ask you to ensure his unrestricted freedom as he undergoes medical treatment. More

DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

President Trump Twitter-condemns CNN (and New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, and CBS) as entirely fake news. Sarah Palin files a defamation suit saying the New York Times… More

DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

Key first amendment case and travel ban reach Supreme Court, senior CNN journalists resign after story retracted, writers in Turkey face more and more nebulous threats from the state,… More

DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal from baker who invoked the First Amendment, Trump administration to go ahead with parts of travel ban. And the White House press secretary… More

DARE To Be Informed

Weekly round-up of pressing threats and notable goings-on in free expression in the United States and around the world. More

DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

Access to White House press briefings continues to narrow, ED Suzanne Nossel on the necessary distinction between offensive speech and violence, and more in free expression from the U.S.… More