Start-Up Company Yondr Wants You to Put Down Your Phone, and Knows Just How to Make You Do It
Yondr phone cases sprung up in response to what many consider the greatest downfall of the Digital Age: smartphone addiction.
Read More Supreme Court Decisions Coming in 2018 That Will Affect All Americans
Should you get taxed for purchases you make online? Can your local bakery refuse service based on your sexual preference? Should the FBI be allowed to access your cellphone records? These and other vital questions promise to be answered by June 2018.
Read MoreWho Gets Paid During a Government Shutdown?
While most federal workers sit home on unpaid leave (or are forced to work without pay), find out whose salaries remain in effect.
Read More4 Issues You Thought Were Protected By The First Amendment, That Aren’t
The First Amendment ensures Freedom of Speech for all citizens, but not always. Especially not if you’re employed, on social media, on campus, or at a rally. Here are four instances where citing Freedom of Speech could still get you in trouble.
Read More4 Foreign Correspondents Were Murdered in 2017, Here Are Their Stories
In 2017 Kim Walsh, Christopher Allen, Stephane Villeneuve and Veronique Robert were the four who never came back.
Read More2017 Free Speech Award Winner Tarquin Ramsay Reflects on the Making and Aftermath of Free Speech, Free Fear
Tarquin Ramsay’s film is an illuminating look at the core components of Free Speech, and asks whether the concept can survive in a global security apparatus. For the questions it raises, and the conclusions it draws, Free Speech, Free Fear won American INSIGHT’s 2017 Free Speech Award.
Read MoreQ+A with Edward Snowden’s Chief Legal Advisor Reveals the Free Speech Glass is Half Full, Even in the Post-9/11 World
Flanked by a shepherd ferry image of Edward Snowden, a not-quite-empty bottle of High West Whiskey Double Rye, and a mock Donald Trump photo signed by his colleagues, Ben Wizner sat down with American INSIGHT to discuss Free Speech in post-9/11 America.
Read MoreAmerican INSIGHT Board Member Karen Curry Talks Free Speech in an Era of Internet Tunnel-Vision, University Safe Spaces, and Global Terrorism
American INSIGHT Board Member Karen Curry’s career spans stints at NBC London, CNN New York, the ACLU, and Drexel University. Here she uncovers how her combined experiences give her a unique outlook on protecting and preserving Freedom of Speech.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Had a Post-Modern Argument Over Social Media And It’s Official: Digital Reality Is Just As Real As Physical Reality
The Supreme Court agrees – social media has become the new town square, the center of civic life in the 21st century – arguing that digital reality is just as real as physical reality.
Read MoreBush and Obama Echo Concerns for America’s Future, and a Return to Peaceful Dialogue
America’s two most recent predecessor Presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, emerged from relative seclusion last week to give their take on the state of the Union, and all its current rifts.
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