Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” ...

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

With President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy” and threatening broadcast licenses and political enemies, First Amendment scholars are asking:  Is the First Amendment under more ...

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.

"We were making up, in a sense, First Amendment law as we went along," said Floyd Abrams. Did you know that the Supreme Court didn't begin interpreting the First Amendment as law until 1919? "We were ...

Following the Dec. 1 memorandum from Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton, the Foundation for Individual ...

The First Amendment, arguably the most crucial amendment in the Bill of Rights, sets protections for free speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition, but the extent of these protections is often ...

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

The prosecution of Trump for his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election does not threaten freedom of speech, not even a little bit. But this entire framing is mistaken. The prosecution of Trump for ...

Philip Hamburger, a professor at Columbia, is the CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents most of the individual plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri. Hamburger wrote the following post ...

A bus passes by a poster of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the agency’s secret mass-surveillance programs. (Reuters/ Bobby Yip) There’s a scene in Laura Poitras’s documentary ...

Six former Environmental Protection Agency employees on Wednesday filed a First Amendment legal challenge against EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for terminating their employment because they protested ...