President Donald Trump and the GOP have called themselves the party of free speech. But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose. We could hear it in the White House’s Orwellian decision in February to revoke The Associated Press’ long-held access to the White House, […]
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