#first-amendment-controversy

#first-amendment-controversy

The ALA documented 4,235 unique titles being challenged in 2025, the second-highest year on record for library challenges, just behind 2023's 4,240 challenges.

On the morning of the Unite the Right rally, I lumbered down the staircase of a Catskills Airbnb rented for a bachelor party to learn that only hours before, a gang of white nationalists stormed the University of Virginia campus wielding Tiki torches and chanting, 'Jews will not replace us.'

Renea Gamble, a 62-year-old grandmother, was arrested for wearing a 7-foot inflatable phallus at a protest, leading to viral bodycam footage of the incident.

The Pentagon's new policy, introduced under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, allows for the revocation of press badges if journalists solicit unauthorized disclosures from military personnel.

In the United States, we haven't yet seen rifles aimed at large crowds, but we do observe masked federal agents detaining protesters in unmarked vehicles, flashy ICE raids staged like military operations and pardons for political violence all clear warning signs. Ignoring this is the first step toward complacency, which can kill liberty. Fascism is often misunderstood. It is not just political oppression; it is a set of traits, as scholars and observers point out,