Issue Papers

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Speaking Freely

• No. 1: "The Beijing Olympiad: A Fleeting Opportunity for a Freer China" by Kurt Wimmer

• No. 2: "Dispatch From the Wars on Free Listening" by Dahlia Lithwick

• No. 3: "First Amendment Deserves More Than Fleeting Friends" by Floyd Abrams

• No. 4: "Policing Hate Speech: Not the Government’s Job" by Tony Mauro

• No. 5: "The Terminator Cometh" by Robert Corn-Revere

• No. 6: "A Taboo Topic: Government Subsidies for the Media" by Harold Furchtgott-Roth

• No. 7: "Revamped Legal Structure Is Key to the Future of Journalism" by Bruce W. Sanford

• No. 8: "The First Amendment and the Fallacy of the Public's Airwaves" by Erwin G. Krasnow, Esq.

Policy Views

• No. 1: "Media Consolidation, Regulation, and the Road Ahead" by Richard T. Kaplar and Patrick D. Maines

• No. 2: "Two-Year Moratorium on Drug Advertising Raises Constitutional Red Flags" by Robert Corn-Revere, Esq.

• No. 3: "Television Violence and Aggression: Setting the Record Straight" by Jonathan L. Freedman, Ph.D.
  

• No. 4: "Performance Fees on Radio Stations: A Debacle Waiting To Happen" by Richard T. Kaplar

• No. 5: "Digital Journalism: The Audience Is Here. But Who’s Monetizing the Content?" by Kurt Wimmer, Esq.

Perspectives

• No. 1: "How the Government's Crackdown on Broadcasting Threatens Emma Thompson and All of Us" by Bruce W. Sanford and Mark I. Bailen

• No. 2: "The Soul of the Censor: The FCC Attacks Television Violence" by Laurence H. Winer

• No. 3: "Reflections of a First Amendment Advocate" by Floyd Abrams

• No. 4: "Missing In Action" by Patrick D. Maines

• No. 5: "The New Media and the First Amendment: Where Are the Champions?" by Richard T. Kaplar

• No. 6: "Five Things About the Google-Yahoo! Deal" by Stephen Kinsella

• No. 7: "Truth Is No Longer Absolute Libel Defense" by Ashley Messenger

• No. 8: "Defining Away the First Amendment" by Robert Corn-Revere, Esq.

Cornerstone Papers: A Series of Occasional Essays on the First Amendment

• No. 1: "Testing Free Speech in the Crucible of the Real World" by Robert S. Peck

• No. 2: "Keeping the First Amendment Alive" by Nat Hentoff

• No. 3: "The Courts:Keeping Speech Free in Troubled Times" by John Corry

• No. 4: "America's Free Press: Now More Than Ever" by Barbara Cochran

• No. 5: "Good Intentions/Bad Results: The FCC and the Law of Unintended Consequences" by Richard E. Wiley

• No. 6: "Global Free Expression and the Internet: Three Modest Goals for American Media" by Kurt Wimmer