"Los Suns" Use Free Speech to Mix Sports and Politics
The Arizona Suns basketball team got a lot of publicity last week on many nightly news programs across the United States. But it was their wardrobe rather than their performance that was the focus of...
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View ArticleRemembering Stalin – An Affront to His Victims?
A bust of Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VirginiaThe recent addition of a bust of Joseph Stalin in the National D-Day Memorial located in Bedford, Virginia, has created a firestorm...
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View ArticleWhen a Joke Isn’t Just a Joke
Saturday Night Live, the weekly live comedy sketch show, has been on the air for decades. But many fans will tell you the show had a tough few years as viewers tuned out. Then came the 2008...
View ArticleCelebrating 60 Years of Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe sent its first broadcast across the airwaves on July 4, 1950. That initial effort gave citizens living in Communist Czechoslovakia an opportunity to receive news and information free...
View ArticleEgyptians Create Their Own Paths to Freedom of Speech
What do you do when officials in your country are limiting freedom of speech, but you have a message to distribute to the world? That’s a question some Egyptians have been dealing with as they...
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