The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...
The things you can’t say on broadcast television have evolved well beyond George Carlin’s obscenity-laced “Seven Dirty Words.” But even in an era of prediction markets, who would have bet the list of ...
I invite you to turn back the clock to a pivotal moment in American history. The year is 1801. Thomas Jefferson has just defeated his archrival John Adams in a hotly contested presidential election ...
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sheldon H. Jacobson, Ph.D., is a professor of computer science in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has researched risk-based ...