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 ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

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 ...

Re “Colleges Must Keep Hosting Difficult Speakers,” by Laura Ann Rosenbury (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 18): I agree with Ms. Rosenbury when she writes that free speech must be protected on college ...

Conservatives are champions of free speech — and they shouldn’t lose sight of that fact. When woke leftists wielded institutional power and squelched campus free speech, the right defended students’ ...

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 ...

If you’re a believer in free speech, the past two weeks have been one of the longest years of your life. In fact, this might have been the worst fortnight for free expression in recent memory. This ...

The First Amendment protections for free speech have inspired people worldwide and laid the foundation not just for American society but also for entire industries – from social media to this very ...

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 ...

What kind of year was 2025 for free speech? In this special year-in-review episode of Free Speech Unmuted, my cohost Jane Bambauer and I break down the biggest legal and political fights shaping ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...