Monday, August 26, 2019
Bliss Davis, Content and Programming Coordinator, The City Club of Cleveland
As the Citadel of Free Speech here in Cleveland, we work to protect and promote the basis of our democracy by sharing related stories, commentary, and opinions on free speech in the 21st century. Here's what's making the news – and what you should know about – in the past week.
1.) Blasphemy laws are quietly...
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Friday, August 23, 2019
Guest Author, Blog, The City Club of Cleveland
by Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square miles of the rainforest this year.
Don’t blame dry weather for the swift destruction of the world’s largest tropical forest, say environmentalists. These Amazonian wildfires are a human-made disaster, set by...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Guest Author, Blog, The City Club of Cleveland
by Chris Berry, partner at Green Block Group
We are now under 500 days until the general election, and the third Democratic presidential primary debate is less than a month away. Roughly two-dozen Democrats are running for their party's nomination to challenge President Donald Trump. This will be an election season like no other as the...
Monday, August 19, 2019
Bliss Davis, Content and Programming Coordinator, The City Club of Cleveland
As the Citadel of Free Speech here in Cleveland, we work to protect and promote the basis of our democracy by sharing related stories, commentary, and opinions on free speech in the 21st century. Here's what's making the news – and what you should know about – in the past week.
1.) Wisconsin State Legislature introduces...
Monday, August 12, 2019
Bliss Davis, Content and Programming Coordinator, The City Club of Cleveland
As the Citadel of Free Speech here in Cleveland, we work to protect and promote the basis of our democracy by sharing related stories, commentary, and opinions on free speech in the 21st century. Here's what's making the news – and what you should know about – in the past week.
1.) Google employees weighed free...
Thursday, August 08, 2019
Guest Author, Blog, The City Club of Cleveland
by Jill Zimon, Ohio Debate Commission
Has four nights of presidential primary debates in the past two months left you wanting more, or dreading the ten (yes, 10) coming up between now and the middle of 2020?
Don’t answer that.
Social media, a 24-7 news cycle, and the infusion of concern for ratings have fired people up on...