What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

Conservatives are champions of free speech — and they shouldn’t lose sight of that fact. When woke leftists wielded institutional power and squelched campus free speech, the right defended students’ ...

When we hear the term "thought police," we think about the book "1984" or maybe recall the horrors of the old Soviet Union and its client states, where citizens were afraid to ever speak the truth.

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 ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

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 ...

When Elon Musk took control of Twitter in 2022, he famously declared himself a “free speech absolutist.” He reinstated accounts that had been banned for spreading misinformation, violent rhetoric and ...

The Supreme Court, in its shadow docket order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, stayed a district court ruling that had temporarily barred federal immigration agents in the Los Angeles area from conducting ...

On Sept. 9, the University of Connecticut received a failing grade from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) 2026 College Free Speech Rankings, according to The Daily Campus.

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The Trump administration will fund efforts to promote free speech within Western countries allied with Washington, a senior State Department official said on Monday ...