Eighty years ago, America reimagined press freedom. It’s time to do it again.

The Hutchins Commission helped define the responsibilities of a free press. Today’s challenges demand a new approach to protecting it.

After nearly two years of chaos, conflict and constitutional crises, American voters on Tuesday expressed their overwhelming dissatisfaction with the state of the union. Now, Democrats need to decide what that mandate means for the next two years, while Republicans need to figure out their identity as a party in a fast-approaching post-Trump world. But all Americans need to grapple with what kind of country we want for generations to come.

No issue is more fundamental to that question, or as illustrative of the fragilities in our democracy, than press freedom.