Author: Brad Friedman

Larry Flynt may be gone, but his indelible legacy as a free speech champion must live on. There’s been a lot of free speech about free speech lately. Much of it—particularly from those defending Donald Trump—is bullshit. But the First Amendment protects free speech that is bullshit. You have the right to be wrong. You...

After helping to heal broken nations overseas, an accomplished diplomat warns America, “The only real path to peace involves accountability.” Make no mistake. There can be no peace, no reconciliation, without truth, without consequences, without accountability. “There’s a reason you don’t have a lot of candidates out there and politicians saying they want to be...

To restore the nation, we must restore justice…and disbar Trump’s lawyers. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2. That’s way over the top, but disbarring Donald Trump’s lawyers wouldn’t hurt. In fact, with nothing less than the survival of our democracy at...