A new batch of documents published by The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals widespread censorship of course content at ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder, a fierce First Amendment debate over the concept of "hate speech" has ...

I remember my great uncle on the farms of Illinois who loved to say, “When one person calls you a horse’s ass, don’t worry. When three people do, go out and buy a saddle.” As a president, you multiply ...

June 17, 2026 - Following Charlie Kirk's assassination, Americans took to their social media accounts to comment on the violence and Kirk's legacy. This intense online debate reached the White House.

Fights over what educators can say are, at their core, clashes over which social values and knowledge get elevated to ...

Last week, the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT were called before Congress to address antisemitism on campus. During five hours of testimony, their studied hypocrisy triggered a bipartisan ...

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 ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech ...

Thanks to the thousands who protested here in 1964, universities nationwide began to ensure students’ rights to free political speech. Inspired in part by the Civil Rights Movement, those protests ...