• Supreme Court tackles free speech issues in dueling decisions

    Supreme Court tackles free speech issues in dueling decisions

    Jun 18, 2015 06:57 PM EST

    ... when the government can forbid something, like the placement and size of signs, and offers governments more leeway when they refuse to support or subsidize speech, Strauss said. "Support the Confederacy all you want, but you just can't use our license plates for that speech," he said. "When the ...

  • Clinton touts shared prosperity in campaign kick-off speech

    Clinton touts shared prosperity in campaign kick-off speech

    Jun 13, 2015 09:10 PM EST

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR ANCHOR: Now, more about Hillary Clinton's major address today, and the state of the 2016 presidential campaign. Joining me to help analyze Clinton's speech today is Lisa Desjardins, the NEWSHOUR's political director. So, candidates make a lot of speeches. Why did this ...

  • Supreme Court rules on headscarf dress code discrimination, threatening speech online

    Supreme Court rules on headscarf dress code discrimination, threatening speech online

    Jun 01, 2015 10:54 PM EST

    ... these look policies that have been used for a very long time as pretext for discrimination. JEFFREY BROWN: All right, case number two, Facebook, Internet, speech online. MARCIA COYLE: Very different cases. JEFFREY BROWN: They're very different, but facts of this case. (CROSSTALK) MARCIA COYLE: OK. Anthony Elonis, after ...

  • U.S. approved most Bill Clinton speech requests within days while HRC was Secretary of State

    U.S. approved most Bill Clinton speech requests within days while HRC was Secretary of State

    May 12, 2015 01:37 PM EST

    ... in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser gave near-blanket approval to at least 330 requests for Bill Clinton's appearance at speeches, dinners and events both in the U.S. and around the globe. More than 220 paid events earned the family nearly $50 million, according ...

  • Four decades later, Bernie Sanders ready to deliver his stump speech

    Four decades later, Bernie Sanders ready to deliver his stump speech

    May 10, 2015 03:54 PM EST

    No one can accuse Bernie Sanders of flip-flopping over his four decades in public life. Rock steady, he's inhabited the same ideological corner from which he now takes on Hillary Rodham Clinton in an improbable quest for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

  • My Baltimore eighth-graders' response to the question, 'What now?' left me speechless

    My Baltimore eighth-graders' response to the question, 'What now?' left me speechless

    May 01, 2015 02:53 PM EST

    ... past curfew or you might get hurt.” “We need more leadership from the older people since the government doesn’t care about us.” I was speechless. Was I really talking to a group of eighth-graders? The only question I could ask them next was, “Do you feel safe?” “Yes ...

  • Justices hear free speech dispute over Confederate flag license plate

    Justices hear free speech dispute over Confederate flag license plate

    Mar 23, 2015 03:22 PM EST

    ... and so what appears on them is not private individuals' speech but the government's. The First Amendment applies when governments try to regulate the speech of others, but not when governments are doing the talking. Even if the court disagrees that license plates are government speech, the state said ...

  • Finding hope and reality in Obama's speech at Selma

    Finding hope and reality in Obama's speech at Selma

    Mar 09, 2015 11:58 PM EST

    ... the next couple of days. Everyone is waiting to hear what she's said. We have seen over these last couple of days at every speech, everyone's been waiting to see if she was finally going to address it. She hasn't. Bill Clinton has said a couple of ...

  • LBJ linked Latinos, civil rights in 'Selma' speech

    LBJ linked Latinos, civil rights in 'Selma' speech

    Mar 05, 2015 01:54 PM EST

    ... memories of historic events in which the "real hero," as Johnson said, was "the American Negro," little is said about Johnson's call in that speech to include Mexican-Americans in the struggle for equality. "It was a defining moment for Johnson and Mexican-Americans," Julie Leininger Pycior, a Manhattan ...

  • President Obama says Netanyahu speech offered no 'viable alternatives' with Iran

    President Obama says Netanyahu speech offered no 'viable alternatives' with Iran

    Mar 03, 2015 07:06 PM EST

    ... t offer any "viable alternatives" to the nuclear negotiations with Iran during his speech to Congress. Obama says he read a transcript of Netanyahu's speech Tuesday. He says "there was nothing new" in the speech. Obama says Netanyahu made almost the same speech when he warned against the interim ...