The First Amendment's freedom of speech got a workout this week. Just in the last few days, a late-night host suspended after a federal regulators threat; a newspaper sued by the president for looking ...
Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do.
The First Amendment is meant to protect freedom of speech for the nation's people and press. But this week, that protection was tested. The First Amendment's freedom of speech got a workout this week.
Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words.
In the U.S., the First Amendment of the Constitution protects freedom of speech. The First Amendment also defends freedom of ...
Such an evaluation runs directly counter to the modern free speech jurisprudence. The courts call this “chilling.” The threat of government reprisal gives one second thoughts — the chills — about ...
Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political ...
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 ...