BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media, I'm Bob Garfield. It will come as no surprise that in Turkey you can be jailed for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. What is shocking is that a critic of ...

“We have freedom of expression in our country. For all those who claim that they can no longer express their opinion, I say this to them: If you express a pronounced opinion, you must live with the ...

Free speech, the driving principle of the American experiment in how free men govern themselves, is a principle that does not always travel well. Free speech requires constant defense and the careful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) arrives for coalition talks at the Social Democratic Party ...

BERLIN – In the first speech of her third term, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged European partners to tackle flaws in their currency union by ceding control over economic policy and making ...