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How to Improve the Safety of our Nation’s Roadways
/in Infrastructure, News from D.C. /by Rep. Eleanor Holmes NortonAhead of the busy summer travel season, the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, which I have chaired since the Democrats took the majority, had an early hearing on road safety. Increases in traffic-related fatalities and injuries have made passenger and traffic safety a top priority for me for the upcoming reauthorization of the surface transportation […]
Taking a Stand on Climate Change and Against Silencing
/in Around the Agencies, First Amendment /by George Luber, PhDAccording to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, climate change poses the single greatest threat to public health in the 21st century. From the impacts of extreme weather events, to the expanding distribution of infectious diseases, climate change will amplify existing threats to health, as well as create new ones. […]
Springing to Action to Protect Free Press
/in First Amendment /by Ted BoutrosWhen the White House revoked Jim Acosta’s press pass after trying to stop Acosta from asking tough but fair questions, it was clear that key First Amendment principles were at stake. Journalists must be able to cover the White House without fear of retribution. I along with my colleagues at Gibson Dunn and the CNN […]
Honoring America’s Brave Free Speech Heroes
/in First Amendment /by Christie HefnerThe First Amendment grants us freedom of speech and expression, but that doesn’t prevent Americans from facing free speech violations and censorship in the workplace, at school or on college campuses. Freedom of the press is also granted to us by the First Amendment, but threats to a free press still exist. While we don’t […]
Retaining Individuality and Refusing to be Silenced
/in First Amendment /by Christian BalesX and Y, left and right, male and female – life is littered with binaries. Some are inherent to the human experience, but what happens when a third variable is introduced? What happens when your options are X and Y, but you know you’re a Z? As was my experience going to a Catholic high […]
Journalism: The Fourth Pillar of Democracy
/in First Amendment /by Grace MarionBecause voters are the decision makers of any democratic republic such as our own, it is imperative that they not only be informed but wholly informed– a democracy hiding information from its people is no democracy at all. This is why journalism is the fourth pillar of democracy– without the free flow of information, democracy […]
Freedom to Express Diverse Viewpoints is Essential for Democracy
/in First Amendment /by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan HaidtThroughout our career, college students reliably supported free speech on campus. In fact, they demanded it. In 2013, we began to notice a dramatic shift: students arguing that certain expression or speakers were injurious to their mental health and their ability to function — utilizing the rhetoric of “violence” and “trauma” to characterize speech. They […]
Women in Journalism…
/in Article, Washington Women in Journalism /by Story PartnersMSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell was the featured honoree at the 6th Annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards at Anderson House in Washington, DC on April 25, co-hosted by Gloria Dittus, Chairman Story Partners and Washingtonian President and CEO Cathy Merrill Williams. The Thursday night event kicks off The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner weekend festivities.