Roughly 100,000 red, white and blue balloons dropped from the ceiling of the United Center following Vice President Kamala Harris’s remarks accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago.

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored ...

NEW YORK — In a city long teeming with rats, both literal and metaphorical, Scabby the Rat stood apart. The enormous balloon rodent loomed large on the streets of New York and across the country, with ...