A pro-Israel group claims its fight for a permit to protest outside the Democratic National Convention next week has fallen flat, despite anti-Israel groups having luck with their approval. “It’s an outrage,” said Elan Carr, CEO of Israeli American Council (IAC), the group who applied for two permits with Chicago’s Department of Transportation last month....
The former Kansas police chief who led raids on a Marion County newspaper, journalists and its 98-year-old co-owner will face criminal charges after an independent investigation found evidence he interfered with the legal process. Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of the Marion County Record, died the day after police knocked on her door with an...
Dr. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific author, has often been described as a cheerleader for science, reason, and humanism. He is often maligned by his critics as a defender of the status quo. Much of his research focuses on slow and steady incremental improvements that have defined rapid human development, both in the...
I spent this past weekend in the Smoky Mountains attending a DeBartolo cousins family reunion in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We had a great time reconnecting and reminiscing. Love and laughter filled the house. President Trump’s assassination attempt took place during the reunion. It contrasted the unity we were experiencing and the division our country is...
“The First Amendment Is Out of Control.” That headline in a recent column in the New York Times warned Americans of a menace lurking around them and threatening their livelihoods and very lives. That menace is free speech and the media and academia are ramping up attacks on a right that once defined us as...
In what some saw as anticlimactic,theSupremeCourt last Monday declined to decide whether Texas and Florida laws regulating social media moderation policies violatetheFirst Amendment. Butthebignews fromthese consolidated cases was whatthecourtdid say. Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion inMoody v. NetChoice(decided withNetChoice v. Paxton), made clear thattheFirst Amendment “does not go on leave when social media are involved.”...
I was born in Iran, and as a young student I joined the masses of protesters in the streets of Tehran in 1979 shouting “Death to America.” But I have grown to love America and what this blessed nation stands for. In 1982 I became a dual citizen and began studying at the University of...
