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The 2019 Hope and Stanley Adelstein Free Speech Essay Contest is here! All Northeast Ohio high school students are invited to submit an essay challenging the role of free speech in the 21st century. This year’s prompt focuses on current threats to free speech – see below for the full prompt. 2019 Prompt: Throughout 2018, there have been...

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.) Free-speech protects Wisconsin students...

I want to be direct with you. I'm concerned about the state of our nation.There’s a divisiveness to so much political conversation and there are fractures in so many communities. Common ground seems so rare. But as the year comes to a close, I reflect on the words shown above on the Freedom of Speech...

by Lee McIntyre, Boston University Most politicians lie. Or do they? Even if we could find some isolated example of a politician who was scrupulously honest – former President Jimmy Carter, perhaps – the question is how to think about the rest of them. And if most politicians lie, then why are some Americans so hard on President Donald...