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As the 2024 election approaches, protests continue across the country, and employees increasingly engage in discourse on important national and international political topics, employers...

The House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package that included a TikTok ban if ByteDance doesn't sell its app.

It is no secret that European regulators are moving with greater speed in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) than their counterparts in the United States. In comparison, the...

If Julian Assange is extradited he will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria. A Long History of US Repression of a Free Press, Despite the Constitution 1950 Amen

A nonprofit organization is calling for Hamline University to be stripped of accreditation after an adjunct professor was dismissed after showing an image of Muhammad during a lecture.

By Joe LAURIA From its earliest years the United States has found ways to deny the rights of a free press when it was politically expedient…

Austin 360 Me, I’ve got a few hundred roommates. An indie-rock goddess. An odd couple of British schoolboys who fancy each other. A Pulitzer Prize winner and his grandfather, who’s haunted by the woman he loved, herself no stranger to phantoms. I met ’em all in the same place here in town: BookPeople, where Austin has found characters like these for five decades. The states largest indie bookstore marked its 50th year on Nov. 11.  It’s more than a place for Austinites to buy page-turne...