The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

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I confess to not having given much thought to the historical origins of free speech before reading Fara Dabhoiwala’s ...

President Donald Trump said his administration "took the freedom of speech away" as it relates to flag burning. During an Oct. 8 roundtable discussion on Antifa, Trump referenced conservative ...

Storrs — University of Connecticut faculty and graduate students gathered in goofy costumes and inflatable animal suits — but their protest in front of Homer Babbidge Library on Monday was no laughing ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Many Americans are worried that their ...

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the ...

Writing in The Federalist this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brags that he is protecting freedom of speech by ending his department's misbegotten crusade against "disinformation." Yet Rubio is ...

Texas A&M University told philosophy professor Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not teach some of Greek ...

At the closing debate of JLF, Pavan K Varma posed a question that had the crowd in an uproar. ‘Would you want to be in jail ...