The profile also spotlights Big Tech companies Apple and YouTube for displaying corporate cowardice in the face of authoritarian intimidation. Read it here: tinyurl.com/fk5fr582

Seven universities across the country were also recognized for their refusal to sign onto a “compact” by the Trump administration that would curb academic freedom and undercut diversity initiatives in exchange for preferential federal funding.

The first edition honors the Pentagon reporters who turned in their press access badges for refusing to sign Secretary Pete Hegseth’s pledge that would have prevented them from reporting on unauthorized information about the DOD.

Profiles in Constitutional Courage and Cowardice documents the public officials, business leaders, and institutions that refuse to bow to intimidation as democratic institutions are under strain, contrasted with instances of complicity that erode the norms and guardrails of a free society.

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