Free speech is a basic human right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, this protection is not unlimited.

Your brain transforms thoughts into speech using an ancient blueprint: the sensorimotor control system. New research reveals ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed US military leaders to verify that every member of the department watched the speech he delivered at an unusual gathering of senior officers in Quantico, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The candidates square off over Trump and taxes as the polls tighten. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, like every politician, claims to be a champion of free speech. Then why is ...

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...

"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in ...

On Sept. 18, during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) fired off a series of questions aimed at the Trump administration, but in the middle of her of her rebuke, she ...

This post is part one of a series. Speaking feels like the most natural thing in the world. You think a thought, open your mouth, and words tumble out in perfect sequence. Yet this apparent simplicity ...

U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday in a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour. Trump repeatedly criticized the institution and other ...

President Trump was subject to some technical difficulties on Tuesday morning while giving a speech at the UN, saying his teleprompter wasn’t working. He then immediately threatened the operator of ...

Former Fox News host and right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson has come under fire for the speech he gave Sunday at the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with some online critics ...

Free speech is a bulwark of open societies, because it allows ideas and information to be shared, authority to be questioned, and abuses of power exposed. In "On Liberty" (1859), John Stuart Mill gave ...