When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored ...
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 ...
On the Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: After Jimmy Kimmel was abruptly pulled from late night TV, many are questioning the government's attempts to control it. David Inserra, a ...
Do those with the biggest megaphones value free speech more than the rest of us? Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg proclaim censorship to be evil, even as the algorithms on the platforms they ...
In President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4, he bragged about restoring “free ...
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 ...