Articles
The Deciders
When it comes to surveillance and national-security leaks, what's protected by the Constitution, what isn't--and what's changing? Our modern debates over speech...
Google Challenges NSA Secrecy in FISA Court
Google has petitioned a secret U.S. national security court to relax restrictions on the information the tech giant can disclose about government data requests,...
Morning Must Reads: May 29
In the news: Michele Bachmann's retirement, the Democrats' kingmaker, liberal hawks and Syria, Eric Holder on Eric Holder, saving the GOP, and Obama's teddy bear...
InAPpropriate?
Today's scandal: the Justice Department targets the Associated Press in a search for government employees who may have leaked classified information.The question...
Holder On The Hot Seat
Lawmakers take their best shots at the embattled Attorney General in today's House Judiciary Committee hearing
Photo Essays
The Long, Sometimes Painful History of the First Amendment
A timeline of contentious Supreme Court decisions on the freedom of speech and assembly
Time.com Specials
Your Bill of Rights: Why the First Amendment is Foremost
In 1789, the United States sought to make the union more perfect, drawing up 10 amendments to the Constitution now known as the Bill of Rights. In this series of...
