Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Before he became the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr often talked about the importance of ...

Fights over free speech have taken up a lot of space in the zeitgeist lately. People on both the left and right claim to be the defenders of free... Freedom of speech has never been for everyone ...

Respectfully, Steven Colbert has been doing nothing but wafer-thinly disguised Democratic propaganda talking points for the last eight years plus. While I completely support Mr. Colbert’s freedom of ...

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 ...

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers. The First Amendment is a ...

Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do. By ...

Mr. Lukianoff is the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. If you’re a free-speech lawyer, you face a choice: Either expect to be disappointed by people ...

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 ...

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 ...

On "The Florida Roundup," lawyer, FIU adjunct professor and author of "Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid's Guide to the First ...

University of Texas President Jim Davis told lawmakers Thursday that his campus aims to better foster civil discourse and produce compassionate, informed students through reforms to core curriculum ...

A new freedom of speech law came into force in the UK on Friday, which seeks to protect free speech in universities. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, which received formal approval ...