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Interview: Police Executives' Research Forum Director Chuck Wexler

PERF’s Boston-connected leader discusses role in Occupy conference calls
In this week's Boston Phoenix , Khadijah Britton reports on PERF , a non-government, non-profit police agency that has been accused of coordinating national police responses to the Occupy movement.
By KHADIJAH BRITTON | November 23, 2011

2011 Muzzle Awards: Campus Edition

Another year of crushing free spirits at our colleges and universities
Law school is not known for being fun, so some professors spice instruction with far-fetched hypotheticals. To some students at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware, one longtime criminal-law prof's hypos went too far.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | June 29, 2011

The 14th Annual Muzzle Awards

Our annual look at the dishonorable enemies of free speech and personal liberty in New England
To understand just how disappointing Barack Obama has been on civil liberties, you need only consider the case of David House, a founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
By DAN KENNEDY | June 29, 2011

Sotomayor's mixed message on free speech

Freedom Watch
Minutes after President Barack Obama announced that he was nominating appellate judge Sonia Sotomayor for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, battle lines were drawn on the pre-scripted questions of "post-racial" America.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | June 03, 2009

Ayering differences

Academic freedom goes down by technicality at BC
Bill Ayers clearly was not welcome at BC — in the flesh or via satellite.
By KYLE SMEALLIE | April 22, 2009

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Southern discomfort

Anti-press overreach in the Sun Belt. Plus, the strange resilience of Page Six editor Richard Johnson
A pair of recent developments in the Sun Belt serves as a useful reminder that antagonism between government and the press can get a whole lot nastier.
By ADAM REILLY | January 28, 2010