"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...
This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.
At Supreme Court oral argument in the Texas social media case back in February, Justice Samuel Alito asked the question: “Let’s say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?” In Monday’s ...
From State ex rel. Jackson v. TikTok Inc., decided Tuesday by Judge Adam Conrad; I'm skeptical about the analysis, for reasons I hope to blog about later (I'm writing a journal article on the subject ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rule on the constitutionality of laws passed by Republicans in Florida and Texas regulating content moderation at large social media companies, sending the ...
The Trump administration has failed to convince a federal judge that its efforts to penalize “diversity, equity, and ...
Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the TikTok divest-or-ban bill against a constitutional challenge. The result was unsurprising given how poorly TikTok fared at September’s ...
Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in ...
Based on oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...