evidence: The government’s lies are similar to the lies of nongovernmental parties in their frequency, variety, and thus their complexity. But the government’s lies are also different from our own lies in important ways that can and should affect their legal treatment. As I’ve written elsewhere, "[t]he government is unique among speakers because of its coercive power as sovereign, its considerable resources, its privileged access to key information, and its wide variety of speaking roles as policymaker, commander-in-chief, employer, educator, health care provider, property owner, and more." [...] Because the government is like no other speaker, its lies sometimes threaten harms different from—and greater than—the harms inflicted by nongovernmental speakers’ lies. For these reasons, we may understandably worry more about the government’s lies than we worry about the same sorts of lies delivered by nongovernmental speakers. [...] Other Responses to the Government’s Lies