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Many Americans share the misperception that America is divided on freedom of speech issues. People on different sides disagree about what constitutes hate speech, what types of speech should be protected, and whether suppression of speech can be productive.

However, some recent surveys have found that many Republicans and Democrats share significant overlaps when it comes to speech.

A president who has survived one revelation after another the last three years now faces perhaps the most serious disclosure of his political career at the very moment he is on trial in the Senate.

In another time, in another Washington, this might be the moment that changed the trajectory of the presidency. A former national security adviser confirms that the president, despite his

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky today endorsed a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants adding his voice to the debate as separate groups on Capitol Hill search for a way forward on the thorny political issue and beginning a dialogue between the GOP and Latinos.In his first...

Public opinion is clearly shifting on the issue of gay marriage even one Republican senator has come out in favor of it. But it was a different story in 1996 when an overwhelming majority of congressional Ds and Rs supported the Defense of Marriage Act and a Democratic president signed it.