Hours after President Donald Trump took his second-term oath of office, he signed an executive order describing his commitment to the First Amendment and the right he said it affords people to "speak ...

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...

Miami University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

Last month, Vice President J.D. Vance lectured European leaders about their troubling retreat from free speech, calling their actions "shocking to American ears" and a threat to democracy itself. Yet ...

In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assissination, a fierce First Amendment debate over the concept of hate speech has taken center stage across the nation. Conservative lawmakers and ...

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 ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

From ACLU's Mar. 4 Open Letter to U.S. College and University Presidents: This letter is prompted by two Executive Orders—Executive Order 14161, titled "Protecting the United States from Foreign ...

Do those with the biggest megaphones value free speech more than the rest of us? Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg proclaim censorship to be evil, even as the algorithms on the platforms they ...

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom. We are in a full-blown crisis of free ...