As America Turns 250, the Free Press Has Never Been More Imperiled

All presidents have hated the press. But Donald Trump's attacks are unprecedented — and they're designed to destroy our democracy.

There is a reason the Founders put freedom of the press first in the Constitution.

Not fifth. Not ninth. First — before the right to bear arms, before protections against unreasonable search and seizure, before any of the rights we spend the most time arguing about. The men who wrote the Constitution had just finished fighting a revolution against a king…