I confess to not having given much thought to the historical origins of free speech before reading Fara Dabhoiwala’s ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Before he became the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr often talked about the importance of ...

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 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 ...