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Released: 16-Aug-2017 4:30 PM EDT
WashU Expert: The First Amendment and the Nazi Flag
Washington University in St. Louis

In the wake of the Aug. 12 confrontations between protesters and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, some progressives are calling for legal restrictions on the display of the Nazi flag. These arguments are entirely understandable, but they often misapply existing First Amendment law, and they suppress free speech values that progressives — more than anyone else — should want to defend, says a Constitutional law expert at Washington University in St.

Released: 15-Aug-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Media Advisory: How a ‘Rock-Paper-Scissors’ Game Led to Charlottesville
 Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins historian N.D.B. Connolly says last weekend’s white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, has made it clear that “generic solutions” to this county’s racial problem do not work. For too long, he says, discrimination and equality in the United States have operated “like an oversized historical game of paper-rock-scissors.”

Released: 27-Jul-2017 12:05 PM EDT
WashU Expert: Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Is ‘Unfounded’
Washington University in St. Louis

A ban on transgender people serving in the United States military is an attempt to make policy with no logical foundation in evidence or expertise on the matter, says an expert on transgender aging at Washington University in St. Louis.President Donald Trump announced July 26 that the United States military will no longer allow or accept transgender people.



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