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Ali Velshi Asks Who is Really Inciting People to Violence?

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member discusses how the Trump administration's is trying to cast reporting on the facts and criticizing the president as the cause of political violence

By Ali Velshi
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Is Free Assembly the Freedom We’re Forgetting?

Amid the ongoing conversation about free speech, democracy-loving Americans should be paying attention to — and exercising — their First Amendment right to … show up, together

By Alaine K. Arnott

Are Campuses Ideological Battlegrounds?

Not according to students in a recent poll. A longtime university president reflects on how the new data explodes the political narrative

By Elaine Maimon
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Ali Velshi, “And The People Won.”

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member explains how media consolidation led to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension — and how ordinary Americans used the tools of democracy to fight for freedom of speech

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Reminds Us Strongmen Can’t Stand Being Mocked

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member examines the firing of Jimmy Kimmel as a direct threat to free speech and democracy coming from corporate capitulation

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Banned Book Club with the Most Banned Author in The Country

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with the first member of the Banned Book Club, George M. Johnson, to discuss the successful effort to fight back against book bans nationwide

By Ali Velshi

Stop Using Antisemitism as a Weapon Against Higher Education

A longtime university president tells Congress to cease and desist from persecuting colleges under the guise of fighting antisemitism

By Elaine Maimon

Hail to the Champions of University Values

The presidents of Temple and Princeton are setting an example for what leaders must do in today’s political climate, according to a longtime university president

By Elaine Maimon

John Fry’s Call to Arms

While others cower, the new Temple prez doubled down last week on Enlightenment values — and just may be modeling a new course for would-be leaders in the age of autocracy

By Larry Platt
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Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Reads You Must Take Part in Revolution

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with journalist Melissa Chan and activist artist Badiucao to talk about their new graphic novel, authoritarianism, and activism

By Ali Velshi