First Amendment

Analysis | International

Global Eye-Rolling Intensifies as America Turns Free Speech Into World’s Most Entertaining Contact Sport
ByDaveslocker 18 September 2025

**The World’s Favorite Spectator Sport: Watching America Argue With Itself About Free Speech** *By Our Correspondent Who’s Watched This Rodeo From 42 Different Countries* GENEVA — While Americans feverishly debate whether their First Amendment rights extend to shouting racial slurs on social media or refusing to bake cakes for weddings that offend their delicate sensibilities,…

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Current Events | International

First Amendment Goes Global: How the World Remixed America’s Favorite Free-Speech Mixtape
ByDaveslocker 18 September 2025

PARIS—While Washington was busy arguing over whether a TikTok ban violates the “freedom to doom-scroll,” the rest of the planet watched with the detached amusement of a bartender who’s seen the same brawl every Friday night. The American First Amendment—once the loudest kid on the ideological playground—now finds itself in a strange mid-life crisis: still…

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