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Step inside the unlikely friendship of a former ACLU president and an ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice.
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What can and can’t you say? A brief glimpse of precedent-setting free speech cases in the United States.
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Phrases like “Global warming” and “climate change” don’t carry any weight.
Keith Whittington, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, breaks down three key free speech arguments by John Stuart Mill.
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Should all speech be free? How much intolerance should society tolerate?
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What happens when a small group gets to decide what is appropriate for everyone?
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Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.
U.S. laws regulating online speech offer broad protections for private companies, but experts worry free expression may be threatened by “better safe than sorry” voluntary censorship.
Just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean that it isn’t true for someone else.
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The ability to speak clearly, succinctly, and powerfully is easier than you think
The bedrock of freedom? Denying the government the power of censorship.
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Ever wanted to describe precisely how crummy you feel after a bad haircut?
Sticklers, pedants, and English teachers love to correct your grammar, but they can put their red pens down when it comes to these six folk errors.
Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?
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“These facts have been presented time and again, year after year, for decades,” DiCaprio says. “Quite simply, we are knowingly doing this to ourselves.”
We compiled a list of seven of the greatest public speakers of all time, people who forever changed the course of history with their words.
Before you follow another “tip” or “trick,” there’s something Alan Alda wants you to know.
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A study analyzes the relationship between how fast people speak and how much information they actually relate.