Yet in his first term, President Donald J. Trump declared that free speech mattered. Trump issued the Executive Order Restoring Free Speech and Ending Federal Censorship on March 21, 2019.

A conservative California community college professor can continue his legal battle against his employer’s diversity, equity, ...

Greg Lukianoff, who has fought free-speech wars on campus for two decades as the head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), dates the ascendancy of the new censors to 2013, when ...

How to Fix the Bias Against Free Speech on Campus. Universities should limit bureaucrats’ power to investigate students and professors for expressing their opinions. By Conor Friedersdorf.

(THE CONVERSATION) Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president ...

Long stalwart defenders of the First Amendment, the American media are now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among journalists that freedom of the press was one of… ...

The so-called assault on free speech is a chimera, progressives argued, brought to you by Fox News and its friends. Fox calls it cancel culture; progressives call it consequences. Hold on.

As the nation heads into the July 4th holiday, we have rarely been more divided. Ironically, we are still debating the core values that define us, particularly the right to free speech.

The liberal Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once warned of the biggest danger facing free speech: “If you have no doubt of your premises or your power, and want a certain result with ...

Walz and Harris, together with President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and other Democrats have all come out against free speech — particularly on social media platforms, the 21st ...

Frustrated that prominent Democrats have not fought harder, former President Barack Obama said in a speech that his party’s ...

The speech of LGBTQ students is under attack by an administrator appealing to group libel and antidiscrimination––and will be defended because neither trumps free speech.