There’s been a lot of excitement about last month’s ruling by a federal judge in Boston that the Trump administration, in its efforts to deport college students holding objectionable political views, ...

The recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk prompted celebration from many people on social media, suggesting a large subculture that rejects the values of free speech. Free speech ...

Thirty years ago, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was born out of real concerns for the future. Lawmakers feared that the early internet, fragile and experimental, would be smothered in ...

Free speech for me, not for thee. That’s the oldest trick in the hypocrite’s playbook. And over the past few weeks, Republicans and Democrats have both taken a page from it. Witness recent events at ...

London — President Donald Trump claimed that Europeans are losing their “wonderful right of freedom of speech.” Elon Musk told a far-right rally in London that Britons are “scared to exercise their ...

Tim Bakken, the longest-serving law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has been a thorn in the side of the government for many years. An author, a scholar, a professor of ...

S tudent activism is under attack. A hostile Congress has held higher education under increased scrutiny on this issue for two years running, and the Trump administration is now taking overt action to ...

Cancellations, sometimes violent protests, behind-the-scenes censorship, and overt government threats to muzzle the media. Free speech is doing better in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world, but that ...

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When Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking in front of a crowd of college students on Sept. 10, something fundamental changed in our country. The conservative activist’s horrific murder, ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...