“We are the free world now.” Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, ...

For Ukraine's media environment, 2026 is set to be an intense year — no less demanding than 2025. In December, the president ...

A series of five studies found that conspiracy beliefs were higher in societies with lower freedom of speech and lower ...

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf ...

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 ...

UCL Professor Alice Sullivan alleged it failed to protect her right to freedom of speech after her talk on gender was ...

State and federal bills seek to limit minors’ access to social media, but civil liberties advocates warn that the resulting ...

An annual survey published by the Freedom Forum shows this year that American's understanding of their First Amendment rights remains low. Even as the First Amendment takes centerstage after the ...

It’s Banned Book Week, and New York City is not immune from ever-increasing attempts to curtail freedom of speech and ban books. Recognizing this threat, in June the Legislature passed The Freedom to ...

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...

Karnataka Assembly passes the country's first anti-hate speech legislation amid uproar from BJP members, who label it a tool ...

When press freedom is weakened for too long, the watchdog is first leashed, then blamed for not barking, and finally attacked for existing at all ...