This amendment is pretty straightforward in its original text, but not all free speech is protected. Advocacy groups like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) make it their ...

People love to accuse me of hypocrisy on campus speech and antisemitism, given my longstanding support for speech over conflicting antidiscrimination laws, but my position remains consistent ...

Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition explores this dynamic in a new series, The State of the First Amendment.

The reverberations from China’s new national security law, which restricts freedom of speech in Hong Kong, continue. Nathan Law is a prominent pro-democracy activist who fled Hong Kong after the ...

To some of the framers — the Federalists, who wanted a leviathan central government as we have today — infringing upon the freedom of speech meant only silencing it before it was uttered.

Immigrants and Freedom of Speech President Trump is taking advantage of an unsettled aspect of the law.

Burt looks at how Freedom of Speech became central to the US creed. 1 Freedom of Speech is central to Burt’s work, which is why he put together two programs dealing with the subject. In this ...

Writing in The Federalist this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brags that he is protecting freedom of speech by ending his department's misbegotten crusade against "disinformation." Yet Rubio ...

They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored.

On Day One, President Donald Trump restored freedom of speech in the United States. If you weren’t aware that it had been removed, that should give you an idea of the scale of the problem ...

Sullivan v. New York Times has set the standard for freedom of the press for more than six decades — reversing it would end free speech as we know it in America.