The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which comes into force on August 1, 2025, means universities in England now have a new duty to uphold "robust" strategies to ensure freedom of speech on ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom on the internet in 35 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the ...

In the early 20th century, American anthropologist Franz Boas argued that being free just means being fully in harmony with ...

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. By ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

In their new book, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman critique current threats to campus free speech, but their narrow definition of academic freedom risks free expression. Campus Speech and ...

Americans’ views on free speech change directions every so often. One of those times was during the protests at U.S. universities about the Israel-Hamas war. As scholars of free speech and public ...

Mahmoud Muna looked on in disbelief as plain-clothes Israeli police officers rifled the shelves in his decades-old bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem. The officers were looking for books they deemed ...

The “fire in a crowded theater” case involved neither a fire, nor a theater, nor a crowd, and resulted in one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever reached. But the phrase fire in a crowded ...

President Trump is taking advantage of an unsettled aspect of the law. By German Lopez The Trump administration has tried in recent weeks to deport several immigrants who spoke out against Israel.

Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students, teachers ...

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the ...