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 ...

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 ...

Kristi Noem, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), from left, Pam Bondi, US attorney general, and US President Donald Trump during a memorandum signing in the Oval Office of the ...

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,” ...

Re “Colleges Must Keep Hosting Difficult Speakers,” by Laura Ann Rosenbury (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 18): I agree with Ms. Rosenbury when she writes that free speech must be protected on college ...

American officials are waging a multifront attack on Europe’s approach to free speech. This month, a congressional delegation traveled to Dublin, Brussels, and London to probe and decry European ...

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Needless to say, this writing campaign has been almost entirely in vain. The liberal side of American politics ...

For much of the 20th century, young Americans were seen as free speech's fiercest defenders. But now, young Americans are growing more skeptical of free speech. According to a March 2025 report by The ...

Bondi, who was Florida's attorney general before becoming the first woman to hold the position federally, has received heavy criticism from liberals and conservatives stemming from the Department of ...