Sage Steele recalls how Stephen A Smith warned her against speaking out while still at ESPN
Former ESPN colleagues Sage Steele and Stephen A. Smith reunited on the former's podcast earlier this week, and they relived...
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Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection At All
A protester demonstrating for trans rights in New York City on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images...
Trump’s FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Really Serves One Powerful Man.
Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Grapevine, Texas, US, March 27,...
Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine (R) provide...
Why We Have to Fight Back Against ICE Protesters’ Terror Convictions
Donald Trump speaks as Pam Bondi smiles during a press conference at the White House in Washington on Oct. 15,...
I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.
FBI agents remove evidence from a private home in Arcadia, Calif., on March 8, 2012. Photo: Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via...
Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury
Federal agents raiding the home of two alleged antifa “operatives” seized a telling piece of evidence, a defense attorney said...
ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press...
Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live.”
Former Minnesota state Sen. Matt Little was lawfully observing federal immigration agents in a Dakota County neighborhood last month when...
Trump Uses the Courts to Intimidate Critics. The Media Must Fight Back.
Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb 23, 2026. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Sipa...
Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom?
Most of the student activists targeted for deportation by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestine speech have beaten back their...
Florida Might Make Its Own Spy Squad. Muslims Think They Have a Pretty Good Idea Who’ll Be Targeted.
Under a bill gaining traction in its state legislature, Florida could soon have its own spy squad. The spooks operating...
Nonprofit Coalition Asks Courts to Prevent Coercive Federal Investigation Tactics
Seventeen nonprofit organizations, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Court...
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The library is seen through a window at the Rensselaer County Jail in Troy, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Photo: Lori...
Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student
Rümeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, arrives at Boston Logan International Airport following her release from federal custody...
