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We should care about constitutional rights for all, says lawyer and religious freedom scholar Asma T. Uddin. If they are denied for some, history demonstrates how they may be at risk for us all.

As humans, we teach each other. But do we take for granted our freedom to do so?

Sometimes, academic expression can make people uncomfortable. But this tension is a feature, not a bug.

Academics are often attacked for having the audacity to pursue their research wherever it leads. But engaging with difficult, challenging ideas is a large part of what academia is about.

Political activism may get people invested in politics, and affect urgently needed change, but it comes at the expense of tolerance and healthy democratic norms.

The true course of progress is not only charted by great men and women, but also by ordinary people having conversations.

If ever there was a food that holds a lesson for building bridges in a fractured America, it's the cabbage roll.

Outrage culture is causing provocative issues to be pushed out of public discourse and important artworks to be literally white-washed. Teaching civil discourse at universities is key to sustaining the American experiment.

When it comes to sniffing out whether a source is credible or not, even journalists can sometimes take the wrong approach.

Bishop Omar Jahwar explains that before mentors can inspire others, they have to be inspired themselves.

Changing people's minds isn't how we end polarization. Tolerance is the gateway to peaceful coexistence.

At one point, America needed to be called a Judeo-Christian nation. Now, with growing populations of Muslims, Evangelicals, Sikhs, Atheists, and other faiths, what should America call itself next?

Former president of the ACLU Nadine Strossen discusses whether our society should always defend free speech rights, even for groups who would oppose such rights.

Eli Pariser explains why we can't just think of civility as being polite to one another.

Here's how we can use the concept of "impact impression" for criminal reform.

It will take a crack team of scientists, programmers and philosophers to cure the online hate pandemic.

As religious diversity increases in the United States, we must learn to channel religious identity into interfaith cooperation.

Step inside the unlikely friendship of a former ACLU president and an ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice.

U.S. laws regulating online speech offer broad protections for private companies, but experts worry free expression may be threatened by "better safe than sorry" voluntary censorship.