Loosely defined hate-speech laws and the rise of social media have led to zealous policing, resulting in fines and prison ...

As a member of the Cornell Free Speech Alliance, I share Daryl Morey’s concerns about the threats to open inquiry in U.S. higher education (“The Numbers Show That MIT Has a Free-Speech Problem ...

Protests and passionate debate have long been hallmarks of college life. But university campuses across England have recently ...

Free Speech. The World Loves Free Speech—Except When They're Offended Americans oppose restrictions, but report feeling less free to speak about political matters.

Charged with the "crime" of hate speech—carrying with it a 2-year prison sentence—this longstanding civil servant, medical doctor, and grandmother has been embroiled in three years of legal ...

After 9/11, George W. Bush instituted so-called free speech zones, outside of which the feds could arrest those who used speech the government disliked. None of this was constitutional. Advertisement ...

Free speech matters, now more than ever. We all should know the difference between being strong and provoking robust debate and being indecent or hateful. Let’s keep our First Amendment free.

If you think free speech is under attack in the United States—and it is—you should see its besieged status in the rest of the world. Open contempt for unrestricted debate prevails in even many ...

The essence of free speech isn’t just that you will find the text of the First Amendment in copies of the Constitution. It requires living up to the principle in practice: for freedom of ...

“We need free and open speech in those public forums,” he said. “When you’ve got the government targeting specific political speech, to take it off that forum, that becomes the problem.” ...

GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer. Free speech for me, not thee. 5/2/2025 ... It's free speech in Trump’s America with New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and the Manhattan Institute's Ilya Shapiro.