Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced recently that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently investigating 27 leaks of classified information. While Sessions declined to discuss details of the investigations and what those leaks might entail, journalists and newsrooms across the nation are worried that they may be at risk. Sessions' announcement follows the Trump administration's... Continue Reading →

A syllabus from a Duke University class on hedge funds stated that staffers of the student paper, The Chronicle, are not allowed to take the class. Lecturer Linsey Lebowitz Hughes, who teaches "Inside Hedge Funds," at Duke, put the message after a warning that students were forbidden to record guest speakers. The Chronicle found that Hughes had been... Continue Reading →

Student reporters from Dougherty Valley High School in California's San Ramon Valley Unified School District are fighting to unseal court documents and a supposedly controversial student video. The video was posted on Twitter by a student running for a student government position, and supposedly depicts the student being abducted by fictional terrorist. The video uses repeated... Continue Reading →

The University of Wisconsin approved a rule that would punish students for disrupting and/or protesting speeches and presentations on campus. The rule, which awaits implementation and signage by Governor Scott Walker, mandates that student protestors who disrupt speeches and presentations may be subject to suspension and possibly even expulsion. The University of Wisconsin will suspend... Continue Reading →

In Chapter 5 of Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, author Anthony Lewis discusses the various issues Americans face when it comes to the intersection of freedom and privacy. Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren wrote “The Right to Privacy,” an article published in 1890 by the Harvard Law Review (pg. 68).... Continue Reading →