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Jeffrey Howard: Should A Culture Dedicated To Free Speech Limit Hate Speech?

9:32am July 27, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Political scientist Jeffrey Howard says democracies should allow all types of speech — even if they're hurtful. The key, he says, is to respond with conversation rather than confrontation.

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Elif Shafak: What Happens When Different Viewpoints Are Silenced?

9:32am July 27, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak has seen firsthand what can happen when a country restricts free speech. She says democracy depends on the right to openly exchange diverse, even oppositional, ideas.

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James Kirchick: Who Benefits From Unrestricted Free Speech?

9:32am July 27, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

When James Kirchick was in college, someone he found deeply offensive spoke on campus. Rather than protest, James attended the talk. He says free speech benefits everyone, especially the powerless.

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Did The Government Meet The Deadline To Reunite Migrant Families?

6:51am July 27, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

The Trump administration says it has reunited all of the eligible parents with their children who were separated under the "zero tolerance" policy. Hundreds of kids are still in government custody.

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The Little Sandy Correctional Complex, located on former farmland outside Sandy Hook, Ky., on Dec. 1, 2005. Four correctional officers sued their supervisor and the Kentucky of Department of Corrections in 2014, alleging the supervisor repeatedly sexually

National

In Kentucky, A 'Culture Of Indifference' To Sexual Harassment In Prisons

5:06am July 27, 2018

by Eleanor Klibanoff

In the last six years, more than 3,500 pages of sexual harassment complaints have been filed against the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Increasingly, victims are taking to the courts.

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Women and children walk to a bus in McAllen, Texas. People released from immigration detention centers are often dropped off at the McAllen bus station in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Government Says It's On Track To Reunite Migrant Parents And Children By Deadline

9:09pm July 26, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

As of Thursday morning officials reported 711 children had yet to be reunited with their parents or an approved sponsor. Some 1,800 children have been handed over to their parents or sponsors.

Immigrants Reunited With Their Children After Release From Detention In TX

Politics & Government

Refugees, Resettlement And Reunification

2:01pm July 26, 2018

The clock is ticking for the federal government to reunite children with their parents.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein looks likely to keep his job, though he will also likely continue to endure political attacks from supporters of President Trump.

Rosenstein Impeachment Sputters On Capitol Hill, But Political War Likely Will Rage On

12:57pm July 26, 2018

by Philip Ewing

A measure that would have removed the deputy attorney general appears to be dead on arrival, but some conservative Republicans are expected to keep up their war on the Department of Justice and FBI.

Former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar speaks at his sentencing phase in Ingham County Circuit Court in Michigan. The judge in the case said she would let someone "to do to him what he did to others" if the Constitution al

Lawyers For Larry Nassar Say He Was Assaulted In Federal Prison

12:24pm July 26, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Attorneys for the disgraced former sports doctor say a judge's harsh comments at his sentencing in a state case contributed to the attack, which reportedly occurred in May.

Appellate Judge James Ho, a young conservative newcomer, embodies the changes that President Trump and Senate Republicans are making to the federal judiciary.

Politics & Government

Legal Opinions Or Political Commentary? A New Judge Exemplifies The Trump Era

11:03am July 26, 2018

by Carrie Johnson

Judge James Ho has begun what likely will be decades of service on the federal bench, drawing attention from critics and supporters and encapsulating how much effect Donald Trump is having.