This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. In the last leg of the 2012 presidential campaign, the political world ...

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 ...

Nicki Minaj praised President Donald Trump in a powerful U.N. speech about the violent conflict in Nigeria. The “Beez in the Trap” rapper spoke at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, ...

The national discussion surrounding free speech that was reignited following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has made me realize how dire the situation has truly gotten on ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Trump’s U.N. speech should be major cause of concern Re: “Trump criticizes countries at U.N.,” Sept. 24 news story Just over a year ago, we were bemoaning ...

Les mottes sont des pistolets chargeis--words are loaded pistols. Jean Paul Sarte. The assassination of Charlie Kirk and two failed attempts on President Trump’s life have drawn renewed attention to a ...

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 ...

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 speech, while pointing fingers at the other side for ...

In the last leg of the 2012 presidential campaign, the political world seemed to be subsumed by Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s caught-on-tape observation that roughly 47% of Americans don’t pay ...

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 ...