Commentary

March for Our Lives, the student group that held nationwide rallies in the spring to decry school shootings, recently began a voter registration campaign ...

In 2009, before the Supreme Court, the government claimed it could ban the publication of a book, if that book contained a single sentence ...

The greatest threats to civil liberties often occur in the name of “national security.” History has shown that free political speech is almost always ...

Facebook’s lobbyists recently teamed up with Maryland legislators to craft what they call a “national model” for regulating ads on social media. The resulting ...

Incumbent politicians have a lot of advantages in campaigns. They have a network of donors to call on for support. They have an in ...

What sets Pennsylvania apart from its Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic neighbors? Freedom of speech in the political process, for one. Imagine you lived in a ...

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously referred to the states as “laboratories of democracy.” States, Brandeis believed, could test out solutions to problems. Some ...

Imagine you lived in a state where it was illegal to express too much support for a candidate. Such a law would be a ...

A landmark Supreme Court decision marked its 40th birthday late last month. It’s worth celebrating. The case, known as First National Bank of Boston ...

More than a thousand students gathered at the Maryland state capitol in March as part of the national “March for Our Lives” demonstrations against ...