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President Trump Is Lying When He Calls the Press Your Enemy

WW’s commitment to independent, enterprising and investigative journalism remains the same no matter who is president.

MAGA Mayhem Fractures a Man’s Skull, as Right-Wing Marchers Test the Limits of Free Speech in Portland

Political rivals are holding protests in Portland streets that look more like gang warfare.

A Notorious Anti-LGBTQ Organization is Petitioning Signatures For the Removal of a Lesbian DTF Ad on TriMet Buses

TriMet has been fielding complaints for putting a controversial OkCupid ad on its buses for weeks.

A Notorious Anti-LGBTQ Organization is Petitioning Signatures For the Removal of a Lesbian DTF Ad on TriMet Buses

TriMet has been fielding complaints for putting a controversial OkCupid ad on its buses for weeks.

Records Show Beleaguered Judge Vance Day Has Turned His Refusal to Marry Same-Sex Couples Into a Cash Register for His Allies

Judge Vance Day used his legal trust fund to raise national money. He spent much of it on national lawyers and consultants.

Portland Police Officers Racked Up $1.9 Million in Overtime While Staffing Protests This Past Year

Here’s how much it cost police to monitor each brawl between right-wing nationalists and antifascists.

Portland Police Officers Racked Up $1.9 Million in Overtime While Staffing Protests This Past Year

Here’s how much it cost police to monitor each brawl between right-wing nationalists and antifascists.

A Homeless Portland Student is Suing Security at Safeway for Allegedly Interrupting His Panhandling With a Beating

In April, Westley Foster went to the downtown Safeway seeking spare change. Instead, he received a beating so severe that an ambulance took him to the hospital.

The ACLU of Oregon Has Emerged as Portland’s Most Consistent Free-Speech Fundamentalists

In a year when the First Amendment seems under threat from all sides, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has emerged as Portland’s most dogged and consistent defenders of free speech—no matter who’s talking or what they’re saying.

After Alarming Portland With a "Free Speech" Protest, the Alt-Right Partied at the Buffalo Gap

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