Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...

The law makes a few exceptions to its protection of free speech -- not liking what you hear isn't one of them.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — About three months after filing a lawsuit, a man has now reached a settlement in his federal First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against the Arkansas Division of Correction. This ...

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative ...

The court says students’ issues with the parody are ‘not grounds for the university retaliating against the professor.’ ...

While we write from opposite ends of the political spectrum—one of us is a progressive democrat, the other a staunch conservative—we both agree that corporations were never intended to have as much ...

Updated on Dec. 10 at 10:37 a.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of money that political parties can spend in […] ...

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.