Cancellations, sometimes violent protests, behind-the-scenes censorship, and overt government threats to muzzle the media. Free speech is doing better in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world, but that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Germany jails people for tweets. France fines them for “hateful” posts — €1,500 last month for a man who insulted a politician online. Europe’s censorship wave is surging, echoing decrees from Nazi ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance sent shockwaves across Europe in February when he used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to say that free speech is "in retreat" across the continent. The event ...